Dahlberg, Edward
Dahlberg, Edward( 1900–1977),born in Boston, the illegitimate son of the Junoesque owner of the Star Lady Barbershop of Kansas City, as he describes in his autobiography, Because I Was Flesh (1964). This work also tells of his years in a Jewish orphan asylum in Cleveland, his education at the University of California (1922–23) and at Columbia (B.S.). For some time after 1926 he was an expatriate in Europe. His novels include Bottom Dogs (England, 1929), about a boyhood like his own, giving a sense of the horror of orphanage, slum, and hobo experiences; From Flushing to Calvary (1932), depicting the sordid lives of slum dwellers in New York City; and Those Who Perish (1934), treating the effects of German Nazism upon American Jews. His prophetic, mystical literary criticism, in the vein of his friend D. H. Lawrence, is printed in Do These Bones Live? (1941), revised as Sing O Barren (1947) and...
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