Nissenson, Hugh

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Nissenson, Hugh
Date of birth
1933-03-10
Date of death
2013-12-13
Place of birth
New York (N.Y.)
Place of death
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Hugh Howard
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 68948991
Wikidata: Q1526719
Library of congress: n 50006016
Sources of Information
  • Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature, 2002:pages 132-133 (Hugh Nissenson, born in New York in 1933, graduated from Swarthmore College, soon afterwards becoming the Wallace Stegner Literary Fellow at Stanford University. Contributed short stories to The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, Playboy and Midstream. Novelist, lived in New York City.)
  • His A pile of stones, 1965.
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1933)
  • New York times (online), viewed Dec. 17, 2013(in obituary published Dec. 16: Hugh Nissenson; b. Hugh Howard Nissenson, Mar. 10, 1933, New York; d. Friday [Dec. 13, 2013], Manhattan, aged 80; author who was praised for creating convincing alternative worlds in books that pursued questions of faith and pressed the boundaries of the novelistic form)
  • LCN: B. 1933