Hilton Obenzinger
American peace activist
Hilton Obenzinger | |
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Born | 1947 (age 76–77) Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Poet |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Columbia College Stanford University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences |
Hilton Obenzinger (born 1947 in Brooklyn) is an American novelist, poet, history and criticism writer.
Life
Obenzinger was born in Brooklyn in 1947, and raised in Queens. He graduated from Columbia University in 1969 and from Stanford University with a PhD in 1997. He was active in the Columbia University protests of 1968.[citation needed] He taught at the Yurok Indian reservation along the Klamath River in northern California, 1969–1970. He taught at Stanford University, where he is associate director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project.[1][2]
Awards
- 1982 American Book Award for This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem[3]
Bibliography
- Obenzinger, Hilton (2021). Witness: 2017-2020. Irene Weinberger Books. ISBN 9780990376798.
- Obenzinger, Hilton (2017). Treyf Pesach. Ithuriel's Spear. ISBN 978-1-943209-16-3.
- Obenzinger, Hilton (2015). How We Write: The Varieties of Writing Experience. Createspace. ISBN 9781517152604.
- Obenzinger, Hilton (2008). Busy Dying. Chax Press. ISBN 978-0-925904-73-7.[4]
- Obenzinger, Hilton (2004). A*Hole. Soft Skull Press. ISBN 978-1-932360-46-2.
- Zosia Goldberg (2004). Hilton Obenzinger (ed.). Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust. Mercury House. ISBN 978-1-56279-128-5.[5]
- Obenzinger, Hilton (1999). American Palestine: Melville, Twain and the Holy Land Mania. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-00973-5.[6]
- Obenzinger, Hilton (1993). Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco. Mercury House. ISBN 978-1-56279-047-9.[7]
- Obenzinger, Hilton (October 1989). New York on Fire. Real Comet Press. ISBN 9780941104401.[8]
- Obenzinger, Hilton (1980). This Passover Or The Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem. Momo's Press. ISBN 978-0-917672-12-5.[9]
- Obenzinger, Hilton (1974). Bright Lights! Big City! (early Poems). Adventures in Poetry.
References
- ^ "Hilton Obenzinger (faculty profile)". Stanford University. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
- ^ "Hilton Bio". Hilton Obenzinger. 3 August 2014. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
- ^ "American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
- ^ Review of Busy Dying:
- Chen, Lu (April 2008). "Prose Roundup". The Brooklyn Rail.
- ^ Reviews of Running Through Fire:
- Gershenson, Gabriella (April 18, 2004). "So beautiful and young, finding ways to survive". San Francisco Chronicle.
- Wall, Alix (April 23, 2004). "Survivors memoirs recall close calls with death". J. The Jewish News of Northern California.
- Bernays, Anne (May 30, 2004). "Books". Washington Post.
- Jacobs, John (September 12, 2004). "Act like a gentile and live". South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
- ^ Reviews of American Palestine:
- Vogel, Lester I. (December 1999). American Jewish History. 87 (4): 397–400. doi:10.1353/ajh.1999.0046. JSTOR 23886237. S2CID 162383364.
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Vöő, Gabriella (Fall 2000). Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS). 6 (2): 305–307. JSTOR 41274117.
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Williams, Peter W. (December 2000). The Journal of American History. 87 (3): 1028–1029. doi:10.2307/2675325. JSTOR 2675325.
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Dolis, John (September 2001). "Review". American Literature. 73 (3): 637–639. doi:10.1215/00029831-73-3-637. S2CID 160723874.
- Nesmith, Chris L. (Winter 2001). American Literary Realism. 33 (2): 186–187. JSTOR 27747024.
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Bush, Harold K. Jr. (Winter 2001). Christianity and Literature. 50 (2): 362–363. doi:10.1177/014833310105000224. JSTOR 44312846.
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- Vogel, Lester I. (December 1999). American Jewish History. 87 (4): 397–400. doi:10.1353/ajh.1999.0046. JSTOR 23886237. S2CID 162383364.
- ^ Reviews of Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco:
- "Fiction book review". Publishers Weekly.
- "Review". Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Reviews of New York on Fire:
- "Nonfiction book review". Publishers Weekly.
- Streitfeld, David (January 14, 1990). "Book report". Washington Post.
- Foster, Sesshu (January 1990). "Fresh harvest: New multicultural poetry by and about workers". Northwest Review. 28 (2): 146–154.
- ^ Review of This Passover or the Next I will Never be in Jerusalem:
- Edgecomb, Gabrielle Simon (February 1982). "Moving history". MERIP Reports. 103 (103): 32–33. doi:10.2307/3011373. JSTOR 3011373.
External links
- Official website
- "Hilton Obenzinger", Columbia 1968
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