About the Book

From the journals of one of our most distinguished critics comes an extraordinary panorama of the intellectual, social and political culture of the last half century. Written with the vividness and power of first-rate fiction, it brings to life the great artists and thinkers who shaped the times, including Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud and Hannah Arendt, and shares Kazin's insights on politics, literature, Jewish life after the Holocaust and American society. It is an immensely rich and resonant memoir from an observer whose eloquence can imbue each moment lived with a lifetime of thought and passion.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780060928322
• ISBN 10: 0060928328
• Imprint: Harper Perennial
• On Sale: 04/11/1997
• Pages: 352
• List Price:18.50 CAD
• BISAC1 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
• BISAC2 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• BISAC3 : LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century
• BISAC4 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous
• BISAC5 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors
• BISAC6 : LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
• BISAC7 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
• BISAC8 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals
• BISAC9 : LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
• BISAC10 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays

Alfred Kazin

Biography

Alfred Kazin was born in Brooklyn in 1915. His first book, On Native Grounds, published in 1942, revolutionized critical perceptions of American literature. It was followed by many more books of essays and criticism, including A Walker in the City and, most recently, Writing Was Everything.

Kazin has taught at Harvard, Smith, Amherst, Hunter College, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In 1996, he received the Truman Capote Literary Trust's first Lifetime Award in Literary Criticism.

Kazin lives in New York City.

Other Works by Alfred Kazin

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  Alfred Kazin's America

  By Alfred Kazin

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  Inventing The Truth

  By Alfred Kazin

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  A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment

  By Alfred Kazin