Alfred Kazin - Alfred Kazins Journals

Alfred Kazin's Journals

Alfred Kazin's Journals

Selected and Edited by Richard M. Cook

Yale
UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Haven & London

Frontispiece: May 14, 1933. All images of pages from Alfred Kazin's journals are reprinted courtesy of The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Philip Hamilton McMillan of the Class of 1894, Yale College.

Copyright 2011 by the Estate of Alfred Kazin, and Richard M. Cook.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kazin, Alfred, 19151998.

Alfred Kazin's journals / selected and edited by Richard M. Cook.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-300-14203-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Kazin, Alfred, 19151998Diaries. 2. CriticsUnited StatesBiography. I. Cook, Richard M., 1941. II. Title.

PS29.K38A3 2011

809dc22

[B]

2010045254

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.481992 (Permanence of Paper).

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To Jeremy, Charlotte, and Abigail

I am grateful to a number of people for assistance with this book. Judith Dunford, Alfred Kazin's widow, encouraged me and provided moral and practical assistance. She has made everything possible. Curator Isaac Gewirtz, Steven Crook, and Ann Garner of the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library were helpful in providing access to material in the Collection. I am grateful to Alan Wald, Morris Dickstein, William Cain, and the late John Patrick Diggins for their encouragement and support. I thank the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for a fellowship, which enabled me to undertake this book, and the University of MissouriSt. Louis Research Office, which provided me with a teaching leave to complete it. Jennifer Banks of Yale University Press was unfailingly enthusiastic and helpful throughout. Dan Heaton, also of Yale University Press, and Mark Schechner read the manuscript and did their best to correct my errors. I thank Hyun Jin Lim, Kimberly Misch, Matthew Kimbrell, and Ryan Smith, who helped me prepare, proofread, and occasionally decipher the entries. I am deeply indebted to my wife, Sylvia, for support and sound advice.