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Pearl Kazin: Sister, Wife, Mother, and Critic
The insecurities of a Jewish intellectual.
A well-regarded literary critic, editor, and occasional writer of fiction, Pearl Kazin (1922–2011) rubbed elbows with a who’s who of the post-World War II American literary scene, including the novelists Truman Capote and Ralph Ellison and the poets Elizabeth Bishop (one of her closest friends), John Berryman, and Dylan Thomas (with whom she had a love affair). She was also the sister of the writer Alfred Kazin and the wife of the sociologist Daniel Bell, two of the most prominent of the group known as the New York intellectuals. Her son, David Bell, describes what he has discovered about Kazin’s life and literary career from her correspondence, and reflects on her relationship with her own origins:
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