Edward Dahlberg

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Edward Dahlberg (born July 22, 1900 in Boston , Massachusetts , † February 27, 1977 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American writer and essayist who was best known for his autobiographical novel Because I Was Meat .

Life

Dahlberg, the son of a hair salon owner, finished his attendance at the Jewish Orphan's Asylum High School in Cleveland in 1917 and then did his military service in the US Army at the end of the First World War in 1918 . In 1922 he began studying at the University of California, Berkeley and then moved in 1923 to a study of philosophy at the Columbia University , which he in 1925 with a Bachelor of Philosophy ended. He then lived for some time in Paris and in Greenwich Village , the bohemian district of New York City .

He made his literary debut in 1929 with the novel Bottom Dogs , the introduction of which was written by DH Lawrence . After the subsequent novel From Flushing to Cavalry (1932), he described in the novel Those Who Perish (1934) his experiences during a stay in Berlin at the time of the seizure of power in 1933. Dahlberg, who was a member of the from 1933 to 1936, also published Communist Party of the USA was, numerous other books on literary criticism , essays , poems and correspondence.

Dahlberg, who taught at numerous universities such as Black Mountain College , lived temporarily on Bornholm in 1955 and later on Mallorca . He had his greatest success with his autobiographical novel Because I Was Flesh , published in 1964 , which was also translated into German and was published under the title Because I was meat . In 1968 he was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters .

In 1968 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1976 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and published the novel The Olive of Minerva in the same year .

Publications

  • Bottom Dogs (1929, novel)
  • From Flushing to Calvary (1932, novel)
  • Those Who Perish (1934, novel)
  • Do These Bones Live? (1941, reviews)
  • Flea of ​​Sodom (1950)
  • The Sorrows of Priapus (1957)
  • Truth Is More Sacred (1961)
  • Because I Was Flesh (1964, memoir)
  • Alms for Oblivion (1964, essays)
  • Reasons of the Heart (1965, Maximen )
  • Cipango's Hinder Door (1965, poems)
  • The Dahlberg Reader (1967, anthology )
  • Epitaphs of Our Times (1967, letters)
  • The Leafless American (1967)
  • The Carnal Myth (1968)
  • The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg (1971, memoir)
  • The Olive of Minerva (1976, novel)
in German language
  • Because I was meat , Munich 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artsandletters.org
  2. ^ Members: Edward Dahlberg. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dahlberg, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1977
Place of death Santa Barbara , California