The Martin Duberman Reader
The Essential Historical, Biographical, and Autobiographical Writings
For the past 50 years, Martin Duberman's ground- breaking historical, biographical and memoir writings have established him as a pre-eminent public intellectual. Duberman is best known for his provocative books about the gay rights movement, as well as acclaimed biographies of singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson and writer and impresario Lincoln Kirstein.
Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he founded and for a decade directed the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. The author of more than twenty books—including Andrea Dworkin, Radical Acts, Waiting to Land, A Saving Remnant, Howard Zinn, Hold Tight Gently, and Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me (for young adults)—Duberman has won a Bancroft Prize and been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City.
