Paul Zweig

Paul Zweig died in 1984 at the age of forty-nine of lymphatic cancer. His wide-ranging career as a man of letters included: poet, critic, intellectual historian, and professor at Columbia University and Queens College. He wrote five books in the last ten years of his life: Departures, Walt Whitman: The Making of a Poet, The Heresy of Self-Love, Three Journeys: An Anthology, and The Adventurer: The Fate of Adventure in the Western World. Zweig’s study of Whitman was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985.