David P. Demarest
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| Born | November 9, 1931 University of Wisconsin, Madison |
David P. Demarest (November 9, 1931 – October 15, 2011) was an American academic and writer best known for his work on
organized labor, social geography
, and US working-class literature.
Life and career
He was born in Englewood
University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1964 he began a long and influential teaching career at Carnegie Mellon University
.
In the 1970s Demarest's research on the
Pinkerton National Detective Agency attempted to land their barges and re-take control of the mill for Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick from the locked-out workers. Demarest was also a founder of the nonprofit Battle of Homestead Foundation that promotes awareness of labor history. For years, too, he championed the restoration and preservation of the Carnegie Free Library of Braddock, the first Carnegie library in the US built in Braddock, Pennsylvania
in 1888.
His parents were David P. Demarest Sr., and Ruth Marsland Demarest.
Illness and death
Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Demarest died at the Forbes Hospice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 15, 2011. Burial arrangements were private.[1]
Books
- Legal Language and Situation in the Eighteenth Century Novel: Readings in Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Austen, dissertation (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1963).
- The Ghetto Reader, co-editor with Lois Lamdin (New York: Random House, 1970).
- From These Hills, From These Valleys: Selected Fiction about Western Pennsylvania, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976).
- Out of This Furnace, Thomas Bell, Afterword by David Demarest (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976).
- The Homestead Strike of 1892, Arthur Burgoyne, Afterword by David Demarest (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979).
- The River Ran Red: Homestead, 1892, co-editor with Fannia Weingartner (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992).
Film
- Out of This Furnace: A Walking Tour of Thomas Bell's Novel, with Steffi Domike, video, 1990, distributed by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
References
- ^ Kalson, Sally. "Obituary: David P. Demarest Jr./Helped preserve region's immigrant culture." Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 20, 2011.
Sources
Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2008.
External links
- Obituary, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Carnegie Mellon University Faculty Profile
- Battle of Homestead Foundation Archived February 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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