Edward Dahlberg

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

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.

[edit] 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

[edit] External links

• Edward Dahlberg Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
• University of Tulsa McFarlin Library's inventory of Edward Dahlberg papers housed in their special collections department.

[edit] References

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