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Alfred Kazin

American writer (1915-1998) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 83

Alfred Kazin was an American writer and literary critic. His literary reviews appeared in The New York Times, the New York Herald-Tribune, The New Republic and The New Yorker. He wrote often about the immigrant experience in early twentieth-century America.

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1998Died5 June 19981995Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement AwardAward1975Rome PrizeAward1966George Polk AwardAward1940Guggenheim FellowshipAward1915Born5 June 1915

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Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award1995
Rome Prize1975
George Polk Award1966
Guggenheim Fellowship1940

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His trilogy of memoirs, A Walker in the City (1951), Starting Out in the Thirties (1965) and New York Jew (1978), were all finalists for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1915 to 1998 · aged 83

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