Edward Dahlberg

Herbie Butterfield (University of Essex)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 22 Jul 1900
Died 27 Feb 1977
Activity 1927-1977

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Autobiographer
Essayist
Literary Critic/ Historian
Man/ Woman of Letters
Novelist
Poet

Resources

Dahlberg's Works

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In June 1968, the magazine

Book World

placed Edward Dahlberg at the head of its list of “the ten most neglected American writers”, albeit that during the preceding decade he had published almost a book a year. Yet in that same month, Jonathan Williams was preparing a

festshcrift

for the author's forthcoming 70th birthday to which no less than 60 poets, novelists, and literary critics would present celebratory essays, tributes, and poems dedicated to Dahlberg. Such a contrast between general public neglect and informed minority esteem continues to this day. In authoritative, panoramic literary histories he may still be mentioned briefly if at all, whilst to his numerous scattered partisans he remains one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.

Dahlberg was born in

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Citation: Butterfield, Herbie. "Edward Dahlberg". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 July 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1119, accessed 22 November 2024.]