Mimi Albert

Tatum Petrich (Montclair State University)

Ed. by Christopher Hugh Gair, University of Glasgow
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 Jun 1940
Activity 1968-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

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Novelist
Story-writer

Other

Autobiographer
Teacher/ Professor

Resources

Albert's Works

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Mimi Albert is a short story writer, novelist, memoirist, critic, journalist, and teacher. Though relatively unknown as a Beat writer, Albert – included in Jim Burns’s “Beat Women” (1993) and Richard Peabody’s

A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation

(1997) – came of age in New York City during what Beat scholars consider the third generation of women Beat writers, and much of her writing depicts the postwar period’s social and cultural rebellion with incisive attention. The New York City countercultural scene is central to much of her work, and she engages in the Beat discourses of identity and authenticity as well as in the female Beat discourse of protofeminism in undeniably important ways. Her body of work extends beyond these Beat subjects, however;…

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Citation: Petrich, Tatum. "Mimi Albert". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 January 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13217, accessed 31 October 2024.]