Edward dalberg jonathan lethem biography

American writer

Edward Dahlberg (July 22, 1900 – February 27, 1977) was an American novelist, essayist, and autobiographer.^[1]

Background

Edward Dahlberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Elizabeth Dahlberg.

Together, mother and son led a vagabond existence until 1905 when she operated the Star Lady Barbershop in Kansas City. Edward was sent to a Catholic orphanage in Kansas City at the age of six for one year. In April 1912, Dahlberg was sent to the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Cleveland, Ohio, where he lived until 1917.

He eventually attended the University of California, Berkeley (1922–23) and Columbia University (B.S.

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in philosophy. 1925).^{[citation needed]}

Career

Dahlberg enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War I, in which he lost the use of an eye after being struck with a rifle butt. In the late 1920s, Dahlberg became part of the expatriate group of American writers living in Paris.

His first novel, Bottom Dogs, was based