Paul Zweig(July 14, 1935 – August 29, 1984) was an American poet, memoirist, and critic known for his study onWalt Whitman.[1][2]
Paul Zweig | |
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| Born | July 14, 1935 Brooklyn,New York |
| Died | August 29, 1984(aged 49) Paris, France |
| Education | Columbia University(BA,MA) University of Paris(PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Critic, poet, professor |
| Employer | Queens College, City University of New York |
Biography
editZweig was born inBrooklynon July 14, 1935, and was raised in a middle-class Jewish family inBrighton Beach.He graduated fromAbraham Lincoln High School,[3]enteredColumbia Universityto study engineering but switched to literature after taking classes taught byMark Van Doren.[4]He received his B.A. from Columbia in 1956 and M.A. in 1958.[5]He lived in France and studied at theUniversity of Paris,earning his PhD in comparative literature before returning to the United States in 1966.[3]
Zweig taught at Columbia andQueens Collegeand served as chair of its department of comparative literature in alternate years.[1]He also reviewed works of poetry, criticism, and fiction forThe New York Review of Books.[1]
Zweig received aGuggenheim Fellowshipin 1976 and was nominated for aNational Book Critics Circle Award for Biographyin 1984 for his study on Walt Whitman.[6][7]He was posthumously named a Finalist ofPulitzer Prize for Poetryin 1990.[8]
In 1984, Zweig died of lymphatic cancer at age 49 in theAmerican Hospital of Paris.[2]
References
edit- ^abc"Paul Zweig, Poet and Critic Praised for Whitman Study".The New York Times.August 31, 1984.ISSN0362-4331.RetrievedJuly 22,2022.
- ^abSiegel, Lee (June 18, 2006)."Paul Zweig's Journeys Into the Self".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.RetrievedJuly 22,2022.
- ^abColumbia College today.New York, N.Y.: Columbia College Office of Alumni Affairs and Development. 1985 – via Columbia University Libraries.
- ^Berg, Stephen (1983).In praise of what persists(1st ed.). New York: Harper & Row. pp. 283, 286.ISBN0-06-014921-3.
- ^Columbia College today.New York, New York: Columbia College Office of Alumni Affairs and Development. 1957 – via Columbia University Libraries.
- ^"Paul Zweig".John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.RetrievedJuly 22,2022.
- ^"1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees".Awards Archive.March 28, 2020.RetrievedJuly 22,2022.
- ^"Finalist: Selected and Last Poems, by Paul Zweig (Wesleyan University Press)".pulitzer.org.RetrievedJuly 22,2022.