Martin Duberman
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Born | Martin Bauml Duberman August 6, 1930 New York City, U.S |
Alma mater | Yale College; Harvard University |
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Years active | 1957–present |
Martin Bauml Duberman (born August 6, 1930) is an American historian, biographer, playwright, and
Early life
Duberman was born into a Jewish family. His father, born in Ukraine, was initially a manual laborer but later founded a successful clothing business that sold uniforms to the government during World War II. His family used the money to move to Mount Vernon, New York, and send Martin to the Horace Mann School, an elite private prep school.[2] He would later graduate from Yale College and Harvard University.[3]
Activism
In 1968, he signed the "
He came out as a gay man in an essay (December 10, 1972) in The New York Times. A founder and keynote speaker of the Gay Academic Union (1973), he later founded and served as first director (1986–1996) of the
Writing
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He has written more than 25 books on subjects such as
Duberman's play In White America won the
Duberman edited (1994–1997) two series (a total of 14 books), "The Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians," and "Issues in Gay and Lesbian Life". He also won three
Duberman's numerous other awards include the 1995 Public Service Award from the Association of Lesbian and Gay Lawyers, the 1996 Public Service Award from the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists, the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Duberman's novel Jews Queers Germans, was published by Seven Stories Press in March 2017.[11] His most recent novel, Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement, a Biographical Novel, was published by the University of California Press in November 2018. His two most recent books are: Naomi Weisstein: Brain Scientist, Rock Band Leader, Feminist Rebel (Levellers Press, 2020), a collection of essays edited by Duberman, and the critical biography Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist as Revolutionary (The New Press, 2020).
His 2023 memoir Reaching Ninety was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir or Biography.[12]
Selected works
- In White America, 1965
- Paul Robeson: A Biography, 1989
- Stonewall, 1993
- Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community, 1993
- Left Out: A Political Journey, 1999
- Haymarket: A Novel, 2004
- The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein, 2007
- Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays, The New Press, 2008
- Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left, 2012
- Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS, New Press, 2014
- Jews Queers Germans, Seven Stories Press, 2017
- Has the Gay Movement Failed?, 2018
- Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement, a Biographical Novel, University of California Press, 2018
- Naomi Weisstein: Brain Scientist, Rock Band Leader, Feminist Rebel, Levellers Press, 2020
- Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist as Revolutionary, The New Press, 2020
- Reaching Ninety, Chicago Review Press, 2023
See also
References
- ^ "School of Arts and Humanities - Department of History: Faculty". lehman.edu. Lehman College.
- ^ Horwitz, Sammy (November 3, 2015). "Martin Duberman's Radical 85-Year Journey Through White America". The Forward. The Forward Association, Inc. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
- ^ "Duberman, Martin 1930- (Martin Bauml Duberman)". encyclopedia.com.
- ^ "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest". New York Post. January 30, 1968.
- ISBN 156584288X.
- ISBN 9780525936022.
- OCLC 858010113
- ^ Duberman, Martin (2004). Haymarket: A Novel. Seven Stories Press.
- ^ "Our Founding". CLAGS. Archived from the original on August 8, 2011. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ^ "Columbia's 2017 Commencement Week Events Take Place from May 13 to 18". Columbia University. July 13, 2023.
- ^ "Books | Seven Stories Press". Sevenstories.com. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
- them.March 27, 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
Further reading
- Matusov, Eugene (2023). "Democracy, dialogism, therapy, progressivism, anarchism, and other values in Martin Duberman's innovative pedagogy". Dialogic Pedagogy. 11 (2): A49–A92. ISSN 2325-3290.
External links
- Martin B. Duberman papers, 1917–2010, at the New York Public Library
- Martin Duberman Collection, 1933–1980, at the State Archives of North Carolina Western Regional Archives