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American writer (–)

Alfred Kazin
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Born	()May 5, New York City, U.S.
Died	May 5, () (aged&#;83) New York City, U.S.
Occupations	Literary critic writer professor
Spouse(s)	Natasha Dohn (divorced) Caroline Bookman (divorced) Ann Birstein () Judith Dunford ()
Children	2

Alfred Kazin (June 5, &#; June 5, ) was an American writer and literary critic.

His literary reviews appeared in The New York Times, the New York Herald-Tribune, The New Republic and The New Yorker.^[1] He wrote often about the immigrant experience in early twentieth-century America.^[2] His trilogy of memoirs, A Walker in the City (), Starting Out in the Thirties () and New York Jew (), were all finalists for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.^[3][4][5]

He was a distinguished professor of English at Stony Brook University of the State University of New York () and the Graduate C