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Walter Abish Collection

 Collection — Box: VMF General Oversize, Folder: 5
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf201

Poster, "Walter Abish. Author of How Germanists, Alphabetical Africa and other fictions."  Poster for a reading by Walter Abish at Washington University in January Hall, Room 110.  The event was sponsored by Philosophy 236: Philosophy and Literature. 30 inches x 16 inches. Located in oversize.

Dates

  • Creation: 1982 March 26

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Open

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Extent

1.00 items

1 folders

Biographical Information

Walter Abish (born December 24, 1931) is an Austrian-American author of experimental novels and short stories.  Abish was born in Vienna, Austria to Adolph and Frieda (Rubin). At a young age, his family fled from the Nazis, traveling first to Italy and Nice before settling in Shanghai from 1940 to 1949. In 1949, they moved to Israel, where Abish served in the army and developed an interest in writing. He moved to the United States in 1957 and became an American citizen in 1960. Since 1975, Abish has taught at several eastern universities and colleges. Abish received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1981 for his book How German Is It. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.

Title
Walter Abish Collection
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
eng

Revision Statements

  • 2021 March 19: Resource record updated in ArchiveSpace by Sarah Schnuriger.

Collecting Area Details

Part of the Manuscripts Collecting Area

Contact:
Joel Minor
Olin Library, 1 Brookings Drive
MSC 1061-141-B
St. Louis MO 63130 US
(314) 935-5495