Leslie Aaron Fiedler was an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction.
12 Facts About Leslie Fiedler
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Leslie Fiedler was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish parents Lillian and Jacob Leslie Fiedler.
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Leslie Fiedler attended South Side High School before majoring in English at New York University.
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Leslie Fiedler taught at many universities both abroad and in the United States.
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Leslie Fiedler taught at the University of Montana from 1941 to 1965.
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Leslie Fiedler was offered a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Besides essays and criticism, Leslie Fiedler was a novelist and a short story writer.
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In 1994, Leslie Fiedler received the Hubbell Medal for his lifetime contribution to the study of literature.
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Ginsberg was an old friend of Leslie Fiedler's and had written the poem "Uptown" about Leslie Fiedler's children after their arrival in New York, coming from Missoula, MT to start a band.
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Leslie Fiedler read his poems while playing a small hand-pumped harmonium from India.
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In 1998, Leslie Fiedler was given the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Leslie Fiedler was married to Margaret Ann Shipley from 1939 until their 1972 divorce.