1941 - 1994
Manuscript Collection Number: 96-82c,
96-59c
Accessioned: 1996
Extent: total: 30 linear ft. (96-82c:
8 linear ft; 96-59c: 22 linear ft.)
Content: essays, articles, manuscripts,
research files, reference files, teaching files, correspondence, legal files,
law school papers, newspaper clippings, speeches, dictation, and
photographs.
Access: Limited pending completion of processing.
Processed: This collection is unprocessed.
Special Collections, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267
(302) 831-2229
David T. Bazelon was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1923. He grew up in Milwaukee and Chicago; attended the universities of Illinois, Virginia, and Chicago; received a B.S. in literature from Columbia University in 1949, and an LL.B. from Yale in 1953. Mr. Bazelon practiced in New York City as a corporate attorney from 1953 to 1958, and was associated first with Hays, Pdell, Algase, Crum & Feuer, and then with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He taugh literature at Bard College (1949-1950); and law as a visiting professor at Rutgers Law School (1965-1967). He was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. (1963-1965). From July 1967 through June 1968 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1969 he became Professor of Policy Sciences at SUNY/Buffalo; and was appointed Professor of English at that institution in 1976. He retired in July 1985.
In addition to his legal and academic career, Mr. Bazelon has been a free-lance writer and editor since 1943. He is the author of The Paper Economy, published by Random House and included in the 1963 annual selection of 50 books "particularly worthy of the attention of American adult readers" by the Notable Books Council of the American Library Association; Power in America: The Politics of the New Class, published by New American Library in 1967; and Nothing But a Fine Tooth Comb: Essays in Social Criticism, 1944-69, published by Simon and Schuster in 1970. More than 100 of his articles, reviews, stories, and poems have appeared in several dozen magazines and anthologies in the past 50 years, including Commentary, The Reporter, Harper's, Partisan Review, The New Republic, The Nation, The New Leader, Dissent, Politics, Yale Law Journal, New York Review of Books, TLS, and others. An early critic of popular culture, Mr. Bazelon wrote on that subject for Commentary in the late forties; and on the American political economy in the early sixties.
Mr. Bazelon has worked as a writer-reporter for "The Mike Wallace Interview" television series, and as an editorial consultant and writer in the production of the film Point of Order! (and related publications.) He was a member of the advisory board of the New Class Study and P.E.N..
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