Edward Baron Turk

Edward Baron Turk
Born	(1946-09-29) September 29, 1946 (age 78) Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	USA
Awards	Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters (France, 1995) Officier in the Order of Academic Palms (France, 2013)
Website	http://web.mit.edu/ebturk/

Edward Baron Turk (born September 29, 1946) ^[1] is a multiple prize-winning American author, arts critic, and educator. He has held professorial positions at Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Columbia University (School of the Arts), and the Institut des Etudes Politiques ("Sciences Po," Paris). He writes mainly on the culture of France – especially its theatre, cinema, and literature – and on Hollywood film. As an author, he has been largely collected by libraries. ^[2]

Books

• Baroque Fiction-Making, University of North Carolina Press (1978), ISBN   978-0-80789-196-4.
• Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema, Harvard University Press (1989), ISBN   978-0-67411-460-9.
• Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald, University of California Press (1998), ISBN   978-0-52021-202-2.
• Marcel Carné et l'âge d'or du cinéma français, L'Harmattan [Paris] (2003), ISBN   978-2-74752-492-6.
• French Theater Today: The View from New York, Paris, and Avignon, University of Iowa Press (2011), ISBN   978-1-58729-992-6.

Awards

• Prize, Theatre Library Association, for the book Child of Paradise (1990) ^[3]
• Selected, author of "one of the best books of 1998" by the Philadelphia Inquirer for Hollywood Diva (1998) ^[4]
• Finalist, Kurt Weill Foundation Book Prize, for Hollywood Diva (1999) ^[5]

References

1. "Edward Baron Turk". MIT Homepages. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
2. "Turk, Edward Baron". worldcat.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
3. "Theatre Library Association Prize notice" . Retrieved April 2, 2016.
4. "Philadelphia Inquirer award notice" . Retrieved April 2, 2016.
5. "Kurt Weill Book Prize notice" . Retrieved April 2, 2016.

External links

• Edward Baron Turk's website at MIT
• shass.mit.edu/news/news-2012-edward-turk-valedictory-thoughts-mit-humanist