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Alfred Kazin
American writer (1915–1988)
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| Born | (1915-05-05)May 5, 1915 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | May 5, 1998(1998-05-05) (aged 83) New York City, U.S. |
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| Spouse(s) | Natasha Dohn (divorced) Caroline Bookman (divorced) Ann Birstein (1952-1982) Judith Dunford (1983-1998) |
| Children | 2 |
Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 – June 5, 1998) 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.[1] He wrote often about the immigrant experience in early twentieth-century America.[2] 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.[3][4][5]
He was a distinguished professor of Engli