Fiedler, Leslie Aaron

Fiedler, Leslie Aaron
▪ 2004

      American literary critic (b. March 8, 1917, Newark, N.J.—d. Jan. 29, 2003, Buffalo, N.Y.), wrote the influential book Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), which examined underlying themes of race and sex in classic American novels and roused the ire of many commentators. After 23 years of teaching English at the University of Montana, Fiedler in 1965 moved to the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he immersed himself in the counterculture of the 1960s. Fiedler taught at several universities and published many essays on popular culture as well as collections of short stories and two novels. In 1997 the National Book Critics Circle granted him the Ivan Sandrof Award for his contributions to American arts and letters.

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