Background
Hilton Als was born in 1960 in New York City, New York, United States. He is the son of Marie Als.
(A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely origina...)
A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role that sexual and racial identity played in the lives and work of the writer's subjects: his mother, a self-described "Negress," who would not be defined by the limitations of race and gender; the mother of Malcolm X, whose mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son's misogyny and racism; brilliant, Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean, who rarely identified with other blacks or women, but deeply empathized with white gay men; and the late Owen Dodson, a poet and dramatist who was female-identified and who played an important role in the author's own social and intellectual formation. Hilton Als submits both racial and sexual stereotypes to his inimitable scrutiny with relentless humor and sympathy. The results are exhilarating. The Women is that rarest of books: a memorable work of self-investigation that creates a form of all its own.
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1997
(Our Town is published to commemorate the 75th anniversary...)
Our Town is published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Museum of the City of New York and the centennial of the consolidation of the city's five boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Its illustrations, many of which have never before been published, reproduce paintings, etchings, lithographs, and photographs by such artists as Rembrandt Peale, Edward Moran, and Reginald Marsh, as well as clothing, theatrical costumes, and a wide range of decorative objects from the museum's unparalleled holdings. The paintings featured range from a ca. 1750 John Wollaston portrait of Colonial matron Mary Spratt Provoost Alexander to Childe Hassam's 1890 Rainy Late Afternoon, Union Square to a 1989 work by graffiti artist LEE. Among the numerous prints are John Sloan's 1925 Snowstorm in the Village and Albert Abramowitz's 1930 colored woodcut Wuxtry (Newsboy). The photography highlights include rare 19th-century cyanotypes of Central Park, six works from the Museum's renowned Jacob A. Riis Collection, and photographs taken by Berenice Abbott for her 1930s "Changing New York" project. A rare court suit and gown worn to one of George Washington's inaugural balls is featured alongside a Gilbert Stuart portrait of the first president.
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1997
Hilton Als was born in 1960 in New York City, New York, United States. He is the son of Marie Als.
Hilton Als began to serve as a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 and a theatre critic in 2002. He contributed to the magazine for the first time in 1989, when he wrote pieces for The Talk of the Town. His reviews are not simply reviews; they are provocative contributions to the discourse on theatre, race, class, sexuality, and identity in America. Before coming to The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. In 2009, Als worked with the performer Justin Bond on “Cold Water,” an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and videos by performers, at La MaMa Gallery.
Nowadays Als works as an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.
Hilton Als is known as the author of The Women, a nonfiction work that blends biography, memoir, literary criticism, and cultural commentary in three essays devoted to an examination of his own coming-of-age in a female household, a portrait of Dorothy Dean, a black woman who participated in the wealthy, white male homosexual society in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s, and Als’s mentor and former lover, the African American literary figure Owen Dodson.
(Our Town is published to commemorate the 75th anniversary...)
1997(A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely origina...)
1997