The Case Worker

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Penguin Books, 1987 - Fiction - 173 pages

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The Case Worker
György Konrád
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The Case Worker
György Konrád
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György Konrád
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About the author (1987)

Irving Howe was born in the Bronx, New York on June 11, 1920. He became a socialist at the age of 14. He graduated from City College in 1940. During World War II, he served in the Army. After the war, he began writing book reviews and essays for several magazines including Commentary, The Nation, and Partisan Review. For four years, he earned a living writing book reviews for Time magazine. He taught English at several colleges including Brandeis University, Stanford University, Hunter College, and City University, which he retired from in 1986. In 1954, he and a group of close friends founded the radical journal Dissent. He was the editor for nearly four decades. Also in the 1950's, he met a Yiddish poet named Eliezer Greenberg and the two began a long project to translate Yiddish prose and poetry into English, eventually publishing six collections of stories, essays, and poems. He wrote several books including Decline of the New, Politics and the Novel, and an autobiography entitled A Margin of Hope. World of Our Fathers won the National Book Award in 1976. He wrote critical studies of William Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson and a biography of Leon Trotsky. He died of cardiovascular disease on May 5, 1993 at the age of 72.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Case Worker
Writers from the other Europe
AuthorsGeorge Konrad, György Konrád
Translated byPaul Aston
ContributorIrving Howe
Editionreprint
PublisherPenguin Books, 1987
ISBN0140099468, 9780140099461
Length173 pages
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