Alfred Kazin: A Biography

by Richard M. Cook

Book Overview

The first biography of Alfred Kazin-inveterate New Yorker, autobiographer, and perhaps the last great man of American letters in the tradition of Edmund Wilson

Born in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and one of America's last great men of letters. Biographer Richard M. Cook provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300115059
• ISBN13: 9780300115055
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"