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Theodore Rosengarten (born December 17, 1944 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American historian.
Life
Theodore Rosengarten studied at Amherst College , where he graduated in 1966. He received his doctorate from Harvard University with a dissertation on Ned Cobb (1885-1973), a tenant and son of a former slave in the Jim Crow era of agriculture in the southern United States. Rosengarten recorded his 120 hours of memories, which were collected on tape using oral history methods , in the historical novel All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw , which received a National Book Award in 1975 in the “Contemporary Affairs” category. The New York Times and Washington Post literary supplements featured cover stories for the book. In 1989 the book was brought to the stage at Lamb's Theater in New York City . The critic Dwight Garner reminded on April 19, 2014 on the front page of the culture section of the New York Times of the publication of the book, which led to the book being again on the current bestseller list.
Rosengarten worked as a teacher and freelance writer. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 . Rosengarten lives in McClellanville , South Carolina .
Fonts (selection)
- All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw , Knopf, 1974, ISBN 978-0-394-49084-7
- with Thomas Benjamin Chaplin in: Susan W. Walker (Ed.): Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter . Morrow, 1986, ISBN 978-0-688-05412-0
- with John McWilliams: Land of Deepest Shade: Photographs of the South . High Museum of Art, 1989, ISBN 978-0-89381-392-5
- with Dale Rosengarten (Ed.): A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life . University of South Carolina Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-57003-445-9
- with Dale Rosengarten, Enid Schildkrout, Judith Ann Carney: Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art . Museum for African Art , 2008, ISBN 978-0-945802-50-1
literature
- Lemma Rosengarten, Theodore , in: International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 . Psychology Press, 2003 ISBN 1-85743-179-0 , p. 479
- Theodore Rosengarten: David W. Blight: Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory , review, in: Amherst, 2002
Web links
- Literature by and about Theodore Rosengarten in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Theodore Rosengarten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ National Book Awards - 1975 , at National Book Foundation
- ^ Frank Rich: Review / Theater; Out of the Old South, the Words of a Witness , in: The New York Times , October 23, 1989
- ↑ Patrick Bahners : A huge success after forty years , in: FAZ , April 26, 2014, p. 11
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rose garden, Theodore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City |