Fénéon Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 2 (1950) Winner
Alfred Kern
アルフレッド・カーン
Arufureddo Kān
Aliases:
Alfred Cohen
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1924-08-08 （Alliance, Ohio）
- Died
- 2009-06-02 （Wilmington, North Carolina） age 84
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Alliance, Ohio → Meadville, Pennsylvania → Colorado Springs, Colorado → Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania → Wilmington, North Carolina
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, professor
- Active Years
- 1959-2009
- Affiliations
- Allegheny College
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allegheny College | — | English | — | — | United States |
| New York University | — | English | — | — | United States |
Allegheny College
English
Year of Graduation:
1948
Country:
United States
New York University
English
Year of Graduation:
1954
Country:
United States
Awards & Nominations
Prix Renaudot (Prix Théophraste-Renaudot)
1 appearances
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Edition 35 (1960) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Width of Waters
1959 novelMade in U.S.A.
1966 novelThe Trial of Martin Ross
1971 novelBibliography
- The Width of Waters (1959)
- Made in U.S.A. (1966)
- The Trial of Martin Ross (1971)
- Hang the Enola Gay (1995)
- Waiting for Euripides (1980)
- Humanities at the Hanoi Hilton (1998)
- Barcelona (1989-1990)
- From 'Vows and Infidelities' (1995)
- About Literary Wars (2005)
- Basic Writing: The Student as Programmer (1986)
- GOTO Poetry (1983)
Legacy
American novelist and professor of English at Allegheny College. Served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and legally changed his name in 1946.
Trivia
- Born Alfred Cohen, legally changed name to Alfred Kern in 1946.
- Served as Frederick F. Seely Professor of English at Allegheny College.
- Experimented with computer-generated poetry in the 1980s.