Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1883-07-03 - 1924-07-03

Gender

Males

Occupations

Places

Prague (Czech Republic) (Place of Birth)
Klosterneuburg (Austria) (Place of Death)
Austria (Associated Country)
Czechoslovakia (Associated Country)

Topics

Fiction

Languages Used

Language: German. Script: Latin

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Frederick Robert Karl papers

Collection

Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2000-1

Scope and Contents The distinguished literary biographer and critic Frederick R. Karl was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1927. After service in the US Navy, 1944-46, he attended Columbia University and Stanford. He taught at City College of CUNY from 1957-1982, and since 1982 has been Professor of English at New York University. Mr. Karl's literary archive covers his biographies of four major writers - Joseph Conrad (1979), William Faulkner (1989), Franz Kafka (1991), and George Eliot (1995) - with a...

Dates: 1961 - 1996

Found in: Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections / Frederick Robert Karl papers