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Alfred Kazin : a biography

by Richard M. Cook

This biography traces the life of twentieth-century literary critic and memoirist Alfred Kazin. Drawing on personal journals, it examines his journey from a Brooklyn childhood to his career as a prominent public intellectual and cultural commentator.

Accession 22396 ISBN 9780300115055 Publisher Yale University Press
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