| Irving Howe  AKA Irving Horenstein
Born: 11-Jun-1920
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 5-May-1993
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Critic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Editor of Dissent Military service: US Army (WWII) Grew up speaking Yiddish at home. Married four times. Father: David Howe (grocery owner)
Mother: Netti Goldman
Wife: Arien Hausknecht
Wife: Ilana Wiener (b. Israel)
University: BS, City College of New York (1940)
Professor: English, Brandeis University (1953-61)
Professor: English, Stanford University (1961-63)
Professor: English, Hunter College (1963-)
Dissent Co-Founder and Editor
Guggenheim Fellowship 1964-65
MacArthur Fellowship 1987
National Book Award 1977 for World of Our Fathers
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Zelig (15-Jul-1983) Himself
Author of books:
Sherwood Anderson: A Critical Biography (1952)
William Faulkner: A Critical Study (1952-62)
Politics and the Novel (1957, nonfiction)
A World More Attractive: A View of Modern Literature and Politics (1963, nonfiction)
Decline of the New (1970, nonfiction)
World of Our Fathers (1976, nonfiction)
Celebrations and Attacks (1978, essays)
A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiography (1982, memoir)
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