Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg (July 22 1900 – February 27 1977) was an American novelist and essayist.

Background

Dahlberg was born in Boston to Elizabeth Dahlberg. Mother and son wandered through the southern and western United States until 1905, when she opened a barber shop in Kansas City. In April 1912 Dahlberg was sent to the Jewish Orphan Asylum, Cleveland, where he lived until 1917. He eventually attended the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University.

In the late 1920s Dahlberg lived in Paris and in London. His first novel, "Bottom Dogs", was published in London with an introduction by D. H. Lawrence. He visited Germany in 1933 and in reaction briefly joined the Communist Party, but left the Party by 1936. From the 1940s onwards, Dahlberg made his living as an author, and also taught at various colleges and universities, most notably Black Mountain College. He married R'Lene LaFleur Howell in 1950.

Dahlberg died in Santa Barbara, California, on February 27, 1977.

Selected works

* 1929 "Bottom Dogs"
* 1932 "From Flushing to Calvary"
* 1934 "Those Who Perish"
* 1941 "Can These Bones Live"
* 1950 "Flea of Sodom"
* 1957 "The Sorrows of Priapus"
* 1961 "Truth Is More Sacred"
* 1964 "Because I Was Flesh", autobiography
* 1964 "Alms for Oblivion", essays and reminiscences
* 1965 "Reasons of the Heart: Maxims"
* 1965 "Cipango’s Hinder Door", poems
* 1967 "The Dahlberg Reader"
* 1967 "Epitaphs of Our Times", letters
* 1967 "The Leafless American", miscellany
* 1968 "The Carnal Myth"
* 1971 "The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg", autobiography and fiction
* 1976 "The Olive of Minerva"

External links

* [http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/lfdahlberg.html Edward Dahlberg Collection] at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
* [http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/dahlberg/index.htm University of Tulsa McFarlin Library's inventory of Edward Dahlberg papers housed in their special collections department.]

References

* Solomon, William, "Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression," (Cambridge University Press: 2002) ISBN-10: 0521813433