Theodore Rosengarten | |
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Born | December 17, 1944 |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Amherst College Harvard University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Theodore Rosengarten (born December 17,1944 [1] ) is an American historian.
He graduated from Amherst College in 1966 with a BA,and earned his PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation on Ned Cobb (1885–1973),a former Alabama tenant farmer. Subsequently,he developed his interviews with Cobb as a kind of "autobiography",All God's Dangers:The Life of Nate Shaw (1974),which won the U.S. National Book Award in category Contemporary Affairs. [2]
About fifteen years later,All God's Dangers:The Life of Nate Shaw was adapted and produced as a one-man play starring Cleavon Little at the Lamb's Theater in New York City. [3]