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Baym, Nina

LC control no.n 82260103
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Personal name headingBaym, Nina
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Variant(s)Zippin, Nina
LocatedBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Birth date1936-06-14
Death date2018-06-15
Place of birthPrinceton (N.J.)
Place of deathUrbana (Ill.)
Field of activityAmerican fiction--Women authors--History and criticism Women and literature--United States--History Women authors, American
AffiliationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)
Profession or occupationLiterary historians Critics College teachers
Found inHer Novels, readers, and reviewers, 1984: CIP t.p. (Nina Baym)
LC data base, 2/22/84 (hdg.: Baym, Nina)
Cummins, M.S. The lamplighter, c1988: CIP t.p. (Nina Baym) data sht. (b. June 14, 1936)
Norton anthology of American literature. 8th ed., c2012: CIP t.p. (Nina Baym; Swanlund Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita of English, Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
New York times WWW site, viewed June 26, 2018 (in obituary published June 22: Nina Baym; b. Nina Zippin, June 14, 1936, Princeton, N.J.; grew up in Brooklyn; m. Gordon Baym, 1958 (div. 1970); m. Jack Stillinger, 1971; d. June 15, Urbana, Ill., aged 82; scholar who asked why so few women were represented in the American literary canon, then spent her career working to correct that imbalance)
Associated languageeng