Background
Dahlberg, Edward was born on July 22, 1900 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Saul Gottdank and Elizabeth Dahlberg.
Dahlberg, Edward was born on July 22, 1900 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Saul Gottdank and Elizabeth Dahlberg.
Student of University California, 1922-1923. Bachelor of Science in Philosophy, Columbia, 1925.
Began writing novels in Monte Carlo, 1926. Lived and wrote in London and Paris, 1926-1928. Author: (novels) Bottom Dogs, 1930 (translations into Spanish public in Chile, 1940).
From Flushing to Calvary, 1932.
Kentucky Blue Grass, 1932. Those Who Perish, 1934.
(literary criticism) Can These Bones Live, 1941, Sing O Barren (foreward by Herbert Read), 1947. Flea of Sodom, 1950; The Sorrows of Priapus (illustrated by Ben Shahn), 1957.
Can These Bones Live (illustrated by James Kearns), 1960.
(with Sir Herbert Read) Truth Is More Sacred, 1961. Because I Was Flesh (autobiography), 1964. Alms for Oblivion; The Anxious Years.
Moby Dick An Hamitic Dream.
Reasons of the Heart, 1965. Cipango’s Hinder Door, 1965.
Edward Dahlberg Reader, 1967. Epitaphs of our Times, The Letters of Edward Dahlberg, 1967.
The Leafless American, 1967.
The Carnal Myth, 1968. The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg, 1971. The Complete Sorrows of Priapus, 1972.
The Gold of Ophir, 1972.
Contributor Fortnightly Review, Poetry, New Republic, The Nation, also Holiday Magazine, New Directions Annual, New York Times, Tomorrow, Prose Magazine several others Carolyn Benton Cockefair professor of University Missouri at Kansas City, 1964-1965, professor language literature, 1966-1977.
Professor Columbia, 1968.
Member Institute Arts and Letters.
Married Julia Lawlor, June 13, 1967.