Obituary: Leslie Fiedler Celebrity critic who liked to provoke

The Independent - London | February 3, 2003| | Copyright

AT A time when American academics were poorly paid and usually little known, Leslie Fiedler managed to be rich and famous. A writer and teacher, Fiedler was enormously influential, both as a seminal figure in the field of American studies, and as a critic who opened up formerly forbidden subjects. As his biographer Mark Royen Winchell noted:

Before Fiedler, hardly any literary critics discussed race and sexuality in American literature. Since him, they hardly talk about anything else.

Fiedler was born in New Jersey in 1917, the son of Jewish immigrants, and after growing up in Newark ...

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