Whiting Awards
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Edition 4 (1988) Winner
Geoffrey O'Brien
ジェフリー・オブライエン
Jefurī Oburaien
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1948-01-01 （New York City）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- New York City, New York, United States → Great Neck, Long Island
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Editor, Critic, Translator, Cultural historian
- Active Years
- 1960-2024
- Affiliations
- Library of America, The New School, New York Film Festival Selection Committee
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Whiting Award | — | — | Whiting Foundation | Winner |
| 1994 | National Book Critics Circle Award | — | Criticism | — | Finalist |
| 1998 | New York Institute for the Humanities Fellow | — | — | New York Institute for the Humanities | Fellow |
| 1999 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Fellow |
| 2002 | Rockefeller Foundation Fellow | — | Bellagio Study Center | Rockefeller Foundation | Fellow |
| 2011 | Bosch Public Policy Prize Fellow | — | — | American Academy in Berlin | Fellow |
Whiting Award
1988
Organization:
Whiting Foundation
Result:
Winner
National Book Critics Circle Award
1994
Category:
Criticism
Result:
Finalist
New York Institute for the Humanities Fellow
1998
Organization:
New York Institute for the Humanities
Result:
Fellow
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1999
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
Fellow
Rockefeller Foundation Fellow
2002
Category:
Bellagio Study Center
Organization:
Rockefeller Foundation
Result:
Fellow
Bosch Public Policy Prize Fellow
2011
Organization:
American Academy in Berlin
Result:
Fellow
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir
1981 CriticismA study of lurid paperbacks and noir masters.
NoirPulp fiction
Dreamtime: Chapters from the Sixties
1988 Cultural criticismChapters from the Sixties.
1960sCulture
The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century
1995 Film criticismMovies in the mind of the twentieth century.
CinemaMemory
Sonata for Jukebox
2004 Music criticismPop music, memory, and the imagined life.
MusicAutobiography
Early Autumn
2010 PoetryElegiac poems.
AutumnMemory
Bibliography
- Hardboiled America
- Dreamtime
- The Phantom Empire
- The Times Square Story
- Bardic Deadlines
- The Browser's Ecstasy
- Sonata for Jukebox
- The Fall of the House of Walworth
- Maciste in the Valley of the Pagans
- Who Goes There
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Erudite but playfulHighly associativeDense highbrow proseProse poems
- Recurring Motifs
- Autobiographical elementsYouthful reading/viewing experiencesLow-budget films and pulp fictionPop music and memory
Legacy
American poet, critic, and cultural historian, executive editor then editor-in-chief of the Library of America.
Trivia
- Mother Margaret O'Brien (née Owens) was a theater actress.
- Father Joseph O'Brien was one of the original WMCA Good Guys.