Daniel Aaron

Daniel Aaron (* August 4, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American historian and American Studies. He completed his studies in 1933 at the University of Michigan from, worked outside the university and acquired in 1943 as the first PhD from Harvard University in American Civilization (North American ). His mentor at Harvard was Perry Miller. Aaron taught from 1939 to 1971 at Smith College. He is the Victor S. Thomas Professor Emeritus of English and American literature at Harvard.

Aaron's Book Writers on the Left, his most famous work, the Communist writer elite of the United States the first half of the 20th century, writers like Max Eastman, Granville Hicks, Floyd Dell, John Reed, Mike Gold, Howard Fast, Joseph Freeman (Editor the New Masses ) and sympathizers as Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Theodore Dreiser or Langston Hughes.

In 1985, Aaron The Inman Diaries issued, a two-volume selection from the original 155 -volume diary of Arthur Crew Inman.

Works

  • Men of Good Hope: A Story of American Progressives. Oxford University Press, New York 1951.
  • Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York 1961.
  • The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1972.
  • Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, 1819-1838. Ohio State University Press, Columbus 1992.
  • The Americanist. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2007. ( Autobiography )
John Reed (journalist) The New York Review of Books Integrated Authority File
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