| Lewis Mumford  Born: 19-Oct-1895
Birthplace: Flushing, NY
Died: 26-Jan-1990
Location of death: Amenia, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Technics and Civilization Wife: Sophia
Son: Geddes (d. 1944 in WWII)
Father: Lewis Mumford
Mother: Elvina Baron
High School: Stuyvesant High School, New York City, NY
University: City College of New York (attended)
University: New School for Social Research (attended)
The New Yorker Architecture Critic, 1931-63
Knight of the British Empire 1943
National Book Award for Nonfiction 1962 for The City in History
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1964
Emerson Thoreau Medal 1965
National Medal of Arts 1986
Author of books:
The Story of Utopias (1922, nonfiction)
Sticks and Stones (1924, architecture)
The Golden Day (1926, nonfiction)
The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 (1931, nonfiction)
Technics and Civilization (1934, nonfiction)
The Culture of Cities (1938, nonfiction)
The Condition of Man (1944, nonfiction)
The Conduct of Life (1951, nonfiction)
The City in History (1961, nonfiction)
The Myth of the Machine (1967-70, nonfiction, 2 vols.)
My Work and Days: A Personal Chronicle (1979, memoir)
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