| LC control no. | n 80102276 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3551.B5 |
| Personal name heading | Abish, Walter |
| Associated place | Wheaton (Ill.) Buffalo (N.Y.) New York (N.Y.) Providence (R.I.) New Haven (Conn.) |
| Located | Italy Nice (France) Shanghai (China) Israel United States |
| Birth date | 1931-12-24 |
| Death date | 2022-05-28 |
| Place of birth | Vienna (Austria) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York : N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Poetry Fiction Experimental fiction Short stories Education, Higher |
| Affiliation | American Academy of Arts and Sciences PEN (Organization) New York Foundation for the Arts Empire State College Wheaton College (Ill.) State University of New York at Buffalo Columbia University Brown University Yale University Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Authors Novelists College teachers English teachers |
| Found in | His Alphabetical Africa, 1974. 99, ©1999: title page (Walter Abish) Walter Abish, c2003: p. 119 (b. Dec. 24, 1931, Vienna, Aust.; US citizen in 1960) Contemporary Jewish-American novelists, 1997: pages [1]-2 (Walter Abish; taught at Columbia University for ten years; identified with the avant-garde fiction writers of the period; published poetry, short stories, and novels; writer of experimental fiction) Poets & writers, December 17, 2015 (Walter Abish; fiction writer, poet) Encyclopaedia britannica, via WWW, December 16, 2015 (Walter Abish; American writer of experimental novels and short stories; spent his childhood in Shanghai; moved to Israel in 1949; immigrated to the United States in 1957 and became a citizen in 1960; from 1975 Abish taught English at several eastern colleges and universities and was a guest professor at Yale University and at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island) Wikipedia, December 17, 2015 (Walter Abish; born December 24, 1932 in Vienna, Austria; Austrian-American author of experimental novels and short stories; lived in Italy, Nice, Shanghai, Israel; moved to the United States in 1957; became an American citizen in 1960; served on the board of International PEN from 1982-1988; on the board of governors for the New York Foundation of the Arts; elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998; worked/taught at Empire State College, Wheaton College, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Columbia University, Brown University, Yale University, and Cooper Union) Wikipedia, August 7, 2023 (Walter Abish; d. May 28, 2022, Manhattan) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Abish> |
| Associated language | eng |
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