Walker in the City

alfred kazin marvin bileck

Kazin’s memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to “americanca”-the larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portrayal of the Jewish immigrant culture of the 1930s. Drawings by Marvin Bileck.

Genres memoirnew yorknonfictionhistoryjewishbiographyliteraturebiography memoirautobiographyamerican

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1951

Literary awards

national book award finalist,

Places

new york city new york,

This edition

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1997 by Fine Communications
ISBN: 9781567312126
ASIN: 1567312128
Language: English

About the author

alfred kazin

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 the first Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award for literary criticism.

His son is historian and Dissent co-editor Michael Kazin.

(from wikipedia.org)