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Alfred Kazin

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June 05, 1915 in Brooklyn, NY, The United States

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June 05, 1998

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Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 – June 5, 1998) was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America.

Kazin is regarded as one of "The New York Intellectuals", and like many other members of this group he was born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and attended the City College of New York. However, his politics were more moderate than most of the New York intellectuals, many of whom were socialists. He wrote out of a great passion-- or great disgust -- for what he was reading and embedded his opinions in a deep knowledge of history, both literary history and politics and culture. He was a friend of the political theorist Hannah Arendt. In 1996 he was awarded t...more

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Books by Alfred Kazin

Average rating: 3.75 · 3,642 ratings · 335 reviews · 43 distinct works

	A Walker in the City 3.75 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1951 — 4 editions	My rating:
	On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1942 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Writing Was Everything 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings by Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	New York Jew 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Starting Out In The Thirties 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	My rating:
	God and the American Writer 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	An American Procession: Major American Writers, 1830-1930 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Writers at Work 03 by George Plimpton, Alfred Kazin (Introduction) 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Lifetime Burning Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.”
― Alfred Kazin

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“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.”
― Alfred Kazin

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“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”
― Alfred Kazin

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