Background

Fritzie Manuel was born in 1910.

Education

Fritzie Manuel graduated from New York University in 1934.

Career

Frank and Fritzie Manuel married in 1936, soon after Fritzie graduated from New York University's Washington Square College. Their collaboration extended beyond married life, as the two co-authored several books, including French Utopias: An Anthology of Ideal Societies and Utopian Thought in the Western World. The Manuels' final book, James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers was published in 2003, the year Frank Manuel passed away. The Manuels' most widely read book, Utopian Thought in the Western World, chronicles the history of Western utopian thought by tracing the philosophy of such intellectuals as Francis Bacon, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, and others. The Manuels regard utopianism as Western culture's distinctive expression of a universal propensity for creating imaginary havens of delight. Additionally, Fritzie Manuel was a contributor to several photography books.

Achievements

• Fritzie Manuel was widely known as a writer and translator. With her husband, Frank Manuel, they co-authored several books. For his work, Utopian Thought in the Western World, they earned the Frederick Melcher Award and Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in 1980, and the National Book Award in 1983.

Works

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  • Utopian Thought in the Western World

    (The Manuels have structured five centuries of the utopian...)

    1979
  • James Bowdoin

    (A history of the early years of the American Academy of A...)

    2003
  • French Utopias

    (A sampling of French utopian thought in English from the ...)

    1966

Connections

Fritzie Manuel married Frank Edward Manuel on 6 October 1936.

husband:

Frank Edward Manuel

Frank Manuel was Kenan Professor of History, Emeritus, at New York University and Alfred and Viola Hart University Professor, Emeritus, at Brandeis University.