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Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard (1920-1990) was an American writer, literary critic, and editor whose literary output spanned several decades. His oeuvre encompassed short stories, essays, and reviews. He was a prolific contributor to several literary magazines and publications, most notably The New York Times, where he served as a regular book reviewer for nearly fifteen years and later as an editor.
Broyard's earliest published work appeared in magazines the 1940s and early 1960s. Articles and essays in prominent intellectual journals followed.
As a literary critic, Broyard gained a reputation for his discerning and often acerbic commentary.
Anatole Broyard was born on July 16, 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Anatole and Edna Broyard. Both parents were of Louisiana Creole descent. He had two sisters, Lorraine and Shirley. When Anatole was a child, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where his father was a construction worker.
The 21-year old Broyard enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces upon the country's entrance into World War II. He served as a troop transport officer in the Pacific Theater.
Upon his return in 1946, he moved to Greenwich Village, then home to a burgeoning bohemian intellectual and artistic cultural scene. It was in this milieu that Broyard began to cultivate his literary aspirations, contributing short stories and essays to various literary magazines and journals throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, laying the groundwork for his extensive career.
Broyard used the GI Bill to take classes at Brooklyn College and The New School for Social Research in Manhattan, where he took seminars in psychoanalysis. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, Broyard had begun writing and submitting short stories and essays to "little magazines" such as Modern Writing, Discovery, and New World Writing. The magazines accepted his submissions, and upon publication he became recognized as an important new voice.
Broyard's essay "A Portrait of the Hipster," published in Partisan Review in 1948, came to be widely recognized and frequently quoted. In this seminal work, Broyard examined the nascent "hipster" subculture emerging in Greenwich Village. Of the hipster, Broyard wrote that "he was always of the minority—opposed in race or feeling to those who owned the machinery of recognition." And he observed intellectuals "ransacking everything for meaning, admiring insurgence... attributed every heroism to the hipster."
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Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard (1920-1990) was an American writer, literary critic, and editor whose literary output spanned several decades. His oeuvre encompassed short stories, essays, and reviews. He was a prolific contributor to several literary magazines and publications, most notably The New York Times, where he served as a regular book reviewer for nearly fifteen years and later as an editor.
Broyard's earliest published work appeared in magazines the 1940s and early 1960s. Articles and essays in prominent intellectual journals followed.
As a literary critic, Broyard gained a reputation for his discerning and often acerbic commentary.
Anatole Broyard was born on July 16, 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Anatole and Edna Broyard. Both parents were of Louisiana Creole descent. He had two sisters, Lorraine and Shirley. When Anatole was a child, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where his father was a construction worker.
The 21-year old Broyard enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces upon the country's entrance into World War II. He served as a troop transport officer in the Pacific Theater.
Upon his return in 1946, he moved to Greenwich Village, then home to a burgeoning bohemian intellectual and artistic cultural scene. It was in this milieu that Broyard began to cultivate his literary aspirations, contributing short stories and essays to various literary magazines and journals throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, laying the groundwork for his extensive career.
Broyard used the GI Bill to take classes at Brooklyn College and The New School for Social Research in Manhattan, where he took seminars in psychoanalysis. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, Broyard had begun writing and submitting short stories and essays to "little magazines" such as Modern Writing, Discovery, and New World Writing. The magazines accepted his submissions, and upon publication he became recognized as an important new voice.
Broyard's essay "A Portrait of the Hipster," published in Partisan Review in 1948, came to be widely recognized and frequently quoted. In this seminal work, Broyard examined the nascent "hipster" subculture emerging in Greenwich Village. Of the hipster, Broyard wrote that "he was always of the minority—opposed in race or feeling to those who owned the machinery of recognition." And he observed intellectuals "ransacking everything for meaning, admiring insurgence... attributed every heroism to the hipster."