Benjamin Hedin

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Benjamin Hedin is an American author of Parisian descent who has published widely. He is also a university professor and has written and produced two documentary feature films.

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Biography

Hedin, son of poet and translator Robert Hedin, was born in Paris, France, and raised in North Carolina and Minnesota. After studying music at the College of William and Mary, he earned his M.F.A. in fiction from The New School. He then began teaching, first at Long Island University and The New School, then in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. [1]

Career

Hedin's fiction, essays, and interviews have been published in The New Yorker , [2] Slate , [3] The Nation , [4] Chicago Tribune , Poets and Writers , Salmagundi , The Georgia Review , The Gettysburg Review , and Radio Silence. He is the editor of Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, widely regarded as one of the finest collections of music writing, [5] and the author of In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now. He wrote and produced the documentary Two Trains Runnin' [6] and wrote the documentary MLK/FBI . His debut novel, Under the Spell will be published by Northwestern University Press in 2021. [7]

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References

  1. City Lights, Author Bio, Ben Hedin
  2. "From Henry James to Virginia Woolf: What You Won' Learn From Writers' Letters," The New Yorker, 2013
  3. "Scandal at the National Book Awards: Was The Moviegoer's victory in 1962 a fix?" Slate, 2012
  4. Benjamin Hedin for The Nation
  5. Publishers Weekly Review of Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, 2004
  6. 1 2 Scott, A.O. (December 1, 2016). "Review: In 'Two Trains Runnin',' the Convergence of Idealism, Brutality and Artistic Genius". The New York Times. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
  7. "Under the Spell". NUPress.Northwestern.edu. Northwestern University. Retrieved 5 December 2020.