Theodore Roszak

Theodore Roszak studied at Princeton University and University of California, Los Angeles. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is culturology. Employment is recorded with Stanford University and San Francisco State University. Works named in the authority record are The Making of a Counter Culture. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel, Otherwise Award and Tähtivaeltaja Award.

• Name — Theodore Roszak • Born — 15 November 1933 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, U.S. • Died — 5 July 2011 • Place of death — Berkeley, California, U.S. • Occupation — * Author • historian • professor • Education — University of California, Los Angeles (BA) Princeton University (PhD) • Subject — History Counterculture of the 1960s • Notable Works — The Making of a Counter Culture • Spouse — Betty Roszak

Roszak was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933 to Anton and Blanche Roszak. The name Roszak is of Polish origin. His parents were Roman Catholic; his father was a cabinet maker and his mother was a homemaker. Roszak attended Chicago public schools. Roszak completed his B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1955. He then received his Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 1958 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Thomas Cromwell and the Henrican reformation." His academic career began by teaching at Stanford University from 1958 to 1963 before joining Cal State Hayward. During the 1960s, he lived in London, where he edited the newspaper Peace News from 1964 to 1965. He also taught as a visiting professor at San Francisco State University in 1981 and Schumacher College in 1991. He was featured prominently in the "Alternative Lifestyles in California" episode of the 1977 BBC television series, The Long Search. His writing career began in 1966 when he started contributing to The Nation and The Atlantic. Theodore Roszak died at age 77 at his home in Berkeley, California, on July 5, 2011.

His fiction includes a cult novel on the "secret history" of the cinema titled Flicker (Simon and Schuster, Bantam Books and Chicago Review Press) and the award-winning Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Random House and Bantam Books). In a 1995 interview with Publishers Weekly, Roszak said, "For me, nonfiction was a detour I took on the way to fiction," and "But writing fiction is like working without a net, and it took me a long time to write something that was good enough to be published. When opportunities to write nonfiction came along, I took them. [...] But if things had turned out the way I wanted, I would always have been a novelist." His final novel, published in 2003, is The Devil and Daniel Silverman.

• The Dissenting Academy (1968) • The Making of a Counter Culture (Doubleday & Company, 1969) • Masculine/Feminine: Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women (1969) • Where the Wasteland Ends (1972) • Sources (1972) • Unfinished Animal: The Aquarian Frontier and the Evolution of Consciousness (1975) • Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society (1979) • From Satori to Silicon Valley (1986) * * • Fool's Cycle/Full Cycle (Robert Briggs Associates, 1988) • The Voice of the Earth (1992); 2nd edition (2001), Phanes Press, • The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking (1994) 2nd edition • The Gendered Atom (1999) • Kanner, Roszak, & Gomes. Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. Sierra Club Books (1995) • World Beware! American Triumphalism in an Age of Terror (Between The Lines, 2006) • The Making of an Elder Culture: Reflections on the Future of America's Most Audacious Generation. (New Society Publishers, 2009)

• "Birth of an Old Generation" • "When the Counterculture Counted • "Raging Against the Machine: In its '1984' Commercial, Apple Suggested that its Computers Would Smash Big Brother. But Technology Gave Him More Control." Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2004.

• Pontifex (1974) • Bugs (1981) • Dreamwatcher (1985) • Flicker (1991) • The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995) • The Devil and Daniel Silverman (2003) Leapfrog. • The Crystal Child: A Story of the Buried Life (2013). Posth. Published posthumously

Theodore Roszak is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship, Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel and Otherwise Award.