Theodore Rosengarten
{{short description|American historian (born 1944)}}
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Theodore Rosengarten (born December 17, 1944International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 (Psychology Press, 2003: {{ISBN|1-85743-179-0}}), p. 479.) is an American historian.
He graduated from Amherst College in 1966 with a BA, and earned his PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation on Ned Cobb (1885–1973), a former Alabama tenant farmer. Subsequently, he developed his interviews with Cobb as a kind of "autobiography", All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974), which won the U.S. National Book Award in category Contemporary Affairs.
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1975 "National Book Awards – 1975"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
There was a "Contemporary" or "Current" award category from 1972 to 1980.
About fifteen years later, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw was adapted and produced as a one-man play starring Cleavon Little at the Lamb's Theater in New York City.[http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=950DE2DD133CF930A15753C1A96F948260 "Review/Theater; Out of the Old South, the Words of a Witness"], The New York Times, Frank Rich, October 23, 1989
Awards
Works
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=ays5TkwCIuUC All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw], Knopf, 1974, {{ISBN|978-0-394-49084-7}}
- Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter, Authors Theodore Rosengarten, Thomas Benjamin Chaplin, Editor Susan W. Walker, Morrow, 1986, {{ISBN|978-0-688-05412-0}}
- Land of Deepest Shade: Photographs of the South, authors Theodore Rosengarten, Photographs John McWilliams, High Museum of Art, 1989, {{ISBN|978-0-89381-392-5}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=ia3rXmIzhJcC "A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life"], Editors Theodore Rosengarten, Dale Rosengarten, University of South Carolina Press, 2002, {{ISBN|978-1-57003-445-9}}
- Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, Authors Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, Enid Schildkrout, Judith Ann Carney, Museum for African Art, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-945802-50-1}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.jstor.org/pss/25089106 "The Hem of My Garment: An Interview with Theodore Rosengarten about the Making of "Nate Shaw""], George Abbott White and Theodore Rosengarten, The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Winter, 1980), pp. 787–800
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Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:National Book Award winners
Category:Amherst College alumni
Category:American male non-fiction writers
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