biography
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| lived:
| (1915–98)
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| biography:
| Literary critic and autobiographer, born in New York City, New York, USA. He was educated at City College and Columbia University, and with Irving Howe belonged in the 1940s to the ‘New York Intellectuals’. Kazin became famous for On Native Grounds (1942), his classic study of modern American prose, a literature he would reinterpret in An American Procession (1982). He taught and lectured widely and reached a popular audience with an autobiographical trilogy beginning with A Walker in the City (1951). |
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