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Alfred Kazin (1915–1998)

Author of A Walker in the City

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Works by Alfred Kazin
A Walker in the City 333 copies, 3 reviews
On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature… 154 copies, 1 review
New York Jew 133 copies
Writers at Work 03 127 copies
An American Procession 112 copies
God and the American Writer 106 copies
Writing Was Everything 66 copies, 1 review
Starting out in the thirties 58 copies
Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings 54 copies
Writer's America, A 51 copies
Contemporaries 49 copies
A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin 47 copies
Bright book of life: American novelists and storytellers from Hemingway to… 46 copies
Emerson: A Modern Anthology (Editor) 36 copies
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Man and His Work 34 copies
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Also by Alfred Kazin
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Afterword, some editions) 35,945 copies, 470 reviews
Moby Dick (Introduction, some editions) 29,052 copies, 456 reviews
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Afterword, some editions) 26,316 copies, 285 reviews
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Afterword, some editions) 13,776 copies, 386 reviews
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Afterword, some editions) 13,608 copies, 163 reviews
The Red Badge of Courage (Introduction, some editions) 8,995 copies, 109 reviews
Sons and Lovers (Introduction, some editions) 8,378 copies, 90 reviews
An American Tragedy (Introduction, some editions) 3,486 copies, 43 reviews
Call It Sleep (Introduction, some editions) 1,859 copies, 37 reviews
The Adolescent (Introduction, some editions) 1,407 copies, 16 reviews
The 42nd Parallel (Introduction, some editions) 1,358 copies, 18 reviews
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Editor, some editions) 841 copies, 14 reviews
The Portable Blake (Editor) 571 copies, 4 reviews
The Financier (Introduction, some editions) 467 copies, 15 reviews
A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage (Contributor) 412 copies, 4 reviews
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Date of birth
1915-06-05
Date of death
1998-06-05
Burial location
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Place of death
Manhattan, New York, USA
Cause of death
prostate and bone cancer
Places of residence
New York, New York, USA
Education
City College of New York
Occupations
writer
literary critic
Relationships
Birstein, Ann (spouse | 1952-1982)
Kazin, Michael (son)
Organizations
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1965)
The New Republic
Fortune
Awards and honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1949)
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