Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman was an American television presenter, journalist, radio personality, literary critic, writer and editor (1904–1999). He was born at Brooklyn and died at Florida.
Also recorded as Clifton Paul Fadiman.
Clifton Fadiman in brief
- Born
- 1904
- Died
- 1999
- Known for
- television presenter, journalist, radio personality, literary critic, writer, editor and screenwriter
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
Contents
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the heading Clifton Paul Fadiman. His recorded language was English.
One child is recorded: Anne Fadiman. Other recorded relations include Sarah Mandelbaum.
Recognition and collections
Clifton Fadiman received star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and National Book Award. Work by Clifton Fadiman is held by Harvard Film Archive.
Catalogued works
42 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1961 to 1997.
Fantasia Mathematica. The Mathematical Magpie. Famous Monster Stories. Pre-Hiroshima and post-Hiroshima minds. 一生的读书计划. A subtreasury of American humor. Schools and the fine arts. The philosophy of Nietzsche. In praise of E.B. White, realist. The new lifetime reading plan, dated 1997. The Lifetime Reading Plan. The American Treasury, 1455 - 1955. Un plan de lectura para toda la vida. Ten Years of Holiday. What Am I Doing Here? Reading I'Ve Liked. Party of one;. Wally the Word Worm. I believe. A Toast to wines & spirits. I believe, [by] W.H. Auden [and others]. The Well - Stocked Bookcase Sixty Enduring Novels By Americans Published Between 1926 - 1986. Reading I've Liked, Personal Selections Drawn From Two Decades of Reading and Reviewing. Fifty Years. Any Number Can Play. PARTY OF TWENTY. Informal Essays Form HOLIDAY Magazine, Edited, and with an Introduction By Clifton Fadiman. Fireside reader. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes. The Treasury of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Enter, conversing. The Story of Young King Arthur (Legacy books). Puffin Children's Treasury. The adventures of Hercules. Voyages of Ulysses. Wally the Wordworm. Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes. WORLD TREASURY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, Book Two (II). gateway to the great Books volume 2 Imaginative Literature. The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought. The World treasury of physics, astronomy, and mathematics / edited by Timothy Ferris ; with a foreword by Clifton Fadiman, general editor., dated [1991], held by Wellcome Collection. Culinary Americana : cookbooks published in the cities and towns of the United States of America during the years from 1860 through 1960 / by Eleanor and Bob Brown; foreword by Clifton Fadiman., dated [1961], held by Wellcome Collection. Correspondence: E-F, dated 1988-1989, held by Wellcome Collection.
In public collections
Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.
Wellcome Collection: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.
Literature
5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
Party of One: Selected Writings of Clifton Fadiman, Books Abroad, 1955. Fadiman, Clifton (1904-1999), literary critic, anthologist, and radio personality, American National Biography Online, 2001. To Clifton Fadiman, 26 November 1933, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 2020. An interview with Clifton Fadiman, Children's Literature in Education, 1975. Review of The Birth of Tragedy, by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Clifton P. Fadiman, Essays in Philosophy, 2004.
Digitised editions and texts
9 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.
Moby Dick; or, The Whale (1977) — Internet Archive. The orations of demosthenes:Pronounced to excite the athenians against philip, king of macedon (1998) — Internet Archive. THe Short Stories of Henry James (1945) — Internet Archive. I Believe (1939) — Internet Archive. Ecocide and thoughts toward survival (1971) — Internet Archive. Reading I've Liked (1941) — Internet Archive. The Lifetime Reading Plan (1960) — Internet Archive. The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce (1946) — Internet Archive. Fifty Years Being a Retrospective Collection of Novels, Novellas, Tales, Drama, Poetry, and Reportage and Essays all Drawn from Volumes Issued During the Last Half-Century By Alfred and Blanche Knopf over This Sign and Divice (1965) — Internet Archive.
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 9 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
In detail
Clifton Fadiman studied at Columbia University. the recorded working language is English.
Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City.
Work by Clifton Fadiman is recorded in the collections of Harvard Film Archive.
Distinctions recorded are star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and National Book Award.
Chronology
- 1904Clifton Fadiman born at Brooklyn.
- 1939I Believe digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1941Reading I've Liked digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1945THe Short Stories of Henry James digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1971Ecocide and thoughts toward survival digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1977Moby Dick; or, The Whale digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1998The orations of demosthenes:Pronounced to excite the athenians against philip, king of macedon digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1999Clifton Fadiman died at Florida.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
- 1.
“Clifton Fadiman”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
Consult the source - 2.
Wikidata, structured authority record Q1101372: Clifton Fadiman
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata
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Elsewhere in Books
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