Hilton Obenzinger
Born1947 (age 76–77)
Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPoet
Academic background
Alma materColumbia College
Stanford University
Academic work
InstitutionsStanford University School of Humanities and Sciences

Hilton Obenzinger (born 1947 in Brooklyn) is an American novelist, poet, history and criticism writer.

Life

Obenzinger was born in Brooklyn in 1947, and raised in Queens. He graduated from Columbia University in 1969 and from Stanford University with a PhD in 1997. He was active in the Columbia University protests of 1968.[citation needed] He taught at the Yurok Indian reservation along the Klamath River in northern California, 1969–1970. He taught at Stanford University, where he is associate director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project.[1][2]

Awards

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Hilton Obenzinger (faculty profile)". Stanford University. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  2. ^ "Hilton Bio". Hilton Obenzinger. 3 August 2014. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  3. ^ "American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  4. ^ Review of Busy Dying:
  5. ^ Reviews of Running Through Fire:
  6. ^ Reviews of American Palestine:
  7. ^ Reviews of Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco:
  8. ^ Reviews of New York on Fire:
    • "Nonfiction book review". Publishers Weekly.
    • Streitfeld, David (January 14, 1990). "Book report". Washington Post.
    • Foster, Sesshu (January 1990). "Fresh harvest: New multicultural poetry by and about workers". Northwest Review. 28 (2): 146–154.
  9. ^ Review of This Passover or the Next I will Never be in Jerusalem:

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