Alfred Kazin

Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 – June 5, 1998) was an American writer and literary critic. His literary reviews appeared in ''The New York Times'', the ''New York Herald-Tribune'', ''The New Republic'' and ''The New Yorker''. He wrote often about the immigrant experience in early twentieth-century America. His trilogy of memoirs, ''A Walker in the City'' (1951), ''Starting Out in the Thirties'' (1965) and ''New York Jew'' (1978), were all finalists for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

He was a distinguished professor of English at State University of New York (1963-1973) and the Graduate Center of City University of New York (1973-1978, 1979-1985). Provided by Wikipedia