Background
Malin, Irving was born on March 18, 1934 in New York City. Son of Morris and Bertha (Silverman) Malin.
(From the contents: Memory and dream in Nabokov's short fi...)
From the contents: Memory and dream in Nabokov's short fiction (B. Wyllie). - Nabokov's approach to the supernatural in the early stories (J.W. Connoly). - Nabokov's Christmas stories (R.H.W. Dillard). - Art and marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's Music and in Lev Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata (N.W. Balestrini). - How they brought the bad news to Mints: Breaking the news (S.G. Kellman). - Alone in the void: Mademoiselle O (J.E. Rivers). - Nabokov's Vasily Shishkov: an author-text interpretation (M.D. Shrayer). - Ville scripts: games of double-crossing in Vladimir Nabokov's The assistant producer (C. Moraru).
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literary critic English literature educator
Malin, Irving was born on March 18, 1934 in New York City. Son of Morris and Bertha (Silverman) Malin.
Malin attended Thomas Jefferson High School and Jamaica High School and graduated magna cum laude from Queens College in 1955 and received his Doctor of Philosophy.
From Stanford University in 1958. He taught at the City College of New York from 1960 until his retirement in 1996. Malin did his dissertation on the fiction of William Faulkner and made his initial academic mark as a critic of American Jewish Literature, editing an early collection on the fiction of Saul Bellow as well as a critical book and a general anthology on Jewish literature in the United States. He subsequently became interested in writers who practiced innovative techniques such as James Purdy and John Hawkes as well as writers who broke down the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction such as William Styron and Truman Capote.
One of the pioneering academics to take an interest in metafiction and experimental writing, Malin was an early contributor to the Review of Contemporary Fiction, writing over five hundred book reviews for this and other publications (like the Hollins Critic).
In the latter portion of his career, Malin edited several anthologies of essays on Henry James, Thomas Pynchon, William Goyen, George Garrett, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Leslie Fiedler, and William Gass. He was a fellow at Yaddo and the Huntington Library and served on many boards and award panels.
Malin died December 3, 2014.
(From the contents: Memory and dream in Nabokov's short fi...)
Member Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors, American Studies Association, American Jewish History Society, Melville Society, Authors League American, Society Study of Southern Literature, Poe Studies Association, English Institute, Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Poetry Society of America, Popular Culture Association, National Book Critics Circle, Sherwood Anderson Society, International Association University Professor English, Kafka Society, English-Speaking Union, Multi-Ethnic Literature United States Society, Hastings Center, American Jewish Congress, Associate Writing Programs, National Council Teachers of English, Vladimir Nabokov Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Ruth Lief, December 18, 1955. 1 child, Mark.