Edward Dahlberg

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Edward Dahlberg (July 22, 1900 to 1977) was an American novelist, essayist, and autobiographer.

Personal life

Winifred Donlea O'Carroll was married in 1942. Winifred had two children from her previous marriage to writer and scholar Harry Thornton Moore. Edward and Winifred had two children together. Julia Lawlor, R'lene LaFleur Howell and his third marriage, he had in 1968, to his longtime mistress, R'lene Howell. Edward, R'lene, and Julia lived in Dublin from the early 1960s to the early 1970s, where Edward was a founder of an Irish literary group that met at McDaid's Pub near Trinity College in Dublin. Frank O'Connor, Brendan and Dominic Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, James Liddy, Garech Browne, Patrick Galvin, and occasionally Frank McCourt and others were among the Dubliners' musical group members. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1968. He was given a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976. Dahlberg died in Santa Barbara, California, on February 27, 1977.

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Career

Dahlberg was enlisted in the United States Army during World War I, in which he lost the use of an eye after being struck with a rifle butt. Dahlberg became a member of the expatriate group of American writers living in Paris in the late 1920s. Bottom Dogs, his first book, was based on his childhood experiences in the orphanage and his travels in the American West; it was published in London by D. H. Lawrence; Dahlberg returned to New York City and lived in Greenwich Village with his advance money. He visited Germany in 1933, where he wrote anti-Nazi articles for The Times and advised many German intellectuals, Jews, communists, and anarchists to flee Germany. Those Who Perish, Heard's first American anti-Nazi book, was published in 1934. Dahlberg lived as an author and lectured at various colleges and universities from the 1940s to the present. He taught Boston University from 1944 to 1948. He worked at the burgeoning Black Mountain College for a short time in 1948. Charles Olson, his colleague and fellow writer, was brought on to the staff.

During his tenure as an expatriate writer in Paris in the 1920s, he met James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and many others. He was a leading member and editor of the Stieglitz Company, which advocated for human rights around the world. He was a proponent of a fundamental humanism in the 1940s. He spoke out against mistreatment of African Americans, Indigenous Americans (Native Americans), Jews, refugees, and employees. He was sentenced to prison three or four times for standing up to injustice. Dahlberg devoted himself to literary research for a number of years. His extensive research of Dante, Shakespeare, Thoreau, and several others resulted in a writing style that was not typical of his earlier writing.

When living on The Flea of Sodom in 1955, he moved to Bornholm, Denmark. In 1957, the Sorrows of Priapus was published, making it his most popular book to date. He later moved to Sóller, Mallorca, on Mallorca, where he was working on Because I Was Flesh, an autobiography that was published in 1964. He became more popular and refined his unique style during the 1960s and 1970s by the publication of poetry, autobiographical works, fiction, and critique. He lived in Dublin and Wicklow, London, Madrid, Malaga, Mexico City, and the Seychelles.

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