Howard Zinn

Biographical Summary

Howard Zinn, historian, playwright

29 Fern St., Auburndale, Mass. 02l66, 6l7-244-0779.

Professor of History, Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga. 1956-1963.

Professor of Political Science, Boston University, 1964-1988.

Education: B.A., New York University, l95l.

M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia University, l952, l958.

Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, l960-6l.

Military Service: U.S.Air Force, European Theatre, l943-45.

Listings: Who's Who in America, Dictionary of Int'l Biography

Books Published:

LaGuardia in Congress (Cornell U. Press, l959), Albert Beveridge Prize, American Historical Association.

The Southern Mystique (Knopf, l964)

S.N.C.C.: The New Abolitionists (Beacon, l964)

New Deal Thought, ed. (Bobbs-Merrill, l965)

Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal (Beacon, l967)

Disobedience and Democracy (Random House, l968)

The Politics of History (Beacon, l970)

The Pentagon Papers: Critical Essays, ed., with Noam Chomsky (Beacon, l972).

Postwar America, l945-l97l (Bobbs-Merrill, l973)

Justice in Everyday Life, ed. (Morrow, l974)

A People's History of the United States (Harper & Row, l980), nominated for American Book Award, l98l

Declarations of Independence (Harper Collins, 1990), Olive Branch Award, 199l.

Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian (Common Courage Press, 1993.)

You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train: A Personal History Of Our Times (Beacon Press, 1994)

The Zinn Reader (Seven Stories Press, 1997)

Marx in Soho: A Play on History (South End Press, 1999)

The Future of History (Common Courage Press, 1999)

Essays: in twenty books.

Articles: in Harper's, The Nation, The Crisis,The

Antioch Review, The American Scholar, The New Republic, Commonweal, The New York Times, The Saturday Review,Le Monde Diplomatique, The Progressive, etc.

Writings Translated: into Japanese, Italian, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian, French, Spanish, Hindi, German, Finnish, Chinese,Korean

Awards:

Thomas Merton Award, 1991, Lannan Literary Award 1998,

Eugene V. Debs Award, 1998,Upton Sinclair Award, 1999

Plays:

Emma (a play about the anarchist-feminist Emma Goldman), produced in New York, Boston, London, Edinburgh, Tokyo.

Unsafe Distances, produced in New York, and at Lucille Lortel's White Barn Theatre in Westport, Conn.

Marx in Soho, Washington, D.C., Asheville, N.C.

Lectures Abroad: Tokyo University, Kyoto University, University of Amsterdam, University of Capetown, South Africa

Visiting Professor: University of Paris,l974, l978, l984.

Univ.of Bologna,1995(Fulbright Distinguished Professor)