Kazin, Alfred
Kazin, Alfred(1915–), literary critic, best known for his critical works, On Native Grounds (1942), a study of American prose literature after Howells; The Inmost Leaf (1955), essays on European and American literature; Contemporaries (1962), essays on American authors, past and present; and Bright Book of Life (1973), treating American fiction from Hemingway to Mailer; and his moving autobiographical writings, A Walker in the City (1951), a lyrical treatment of his youth in Brownsville, then a Jewish immigrant section of Brooklyn; Starting Out in the Thirties (1965), reminiscences of his young manhood; and New York Jew (1978), considering his life into the 1970s. An American Procession (1984) is on U.S. authors from 1830 to 1930, and A Writer's America (1989) concerns landscape in literature. Our New York (1990), heavily illustrated, combines memoirs and social history.
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