Hilton Obenzinger

Hilton Obenzinger (born 1947 Brooklyn) is an American novelist, poet, history and criticism writer.

Life

He was raised in Queens, and graduated from Columbia University in 1969 and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in 1997. He was active in the Columbia University protests of 1968. He taught at the Yurok Indian reservation along the Klamath River in northern California, 1969–1970. He teaches at Stanford University.

Awards

• 1982 American Book Award for This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem

Bibliography

• Busy Dying. Chax Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-925904-73-7.
• Obenzinger, Hilton (2004). A*Hole. Soft Skull Press. ISBN 978-1-932360-46-2.
• Zosia Goldberg (2004). Hilton Obenzinger (ed.). Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust. Mercury House. ISBN 978-1-56279-128-5.
• "From ‘Satan’s Asshole’ — Chapter Three", Jacket 18, August 2002
• Obenzinger, Hilton (1999). American Palestine: Melville, Twain and the Holy Land Mania. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-00973-5.
• Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco. Mercury House. 1993. ISBN 978-1-56279-047-9.
• New York on Fire, Real Comet Press, 1989
• This Passover Or The Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem. Momo's Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-917672-12-5.
• Bright lights! Big city!, Adventures in Poetry, 1974

External links

• "Hilton Obenzinger", Columbia 1968
• "Author's website