Born: 22-Jul-1900
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Died: 27-Feb-1977
Location of death: Santa Barbara, CA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Essayist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Because I Was Flesh

Military service: US Army (1918-)

Mother: Lizzie Dahlberg (owner, Star Lady Barbershop of Kansas City)
Wife: (married twice)

    High School: Jewish Orphan's Asylum High School, Cleveland, OH (1917)
    University: University of California at Berkeley (attended 1922-23)
    University: BS Philosophy, Columbia University (1925)

    Communist Party 1933-36

Author of books:
Bottom Dogs (1929, novel)
From Flushing to Calvary (1932, novel)
Those Who Perish (1934, novel)
Do These Bones Live? (1941, criticism)
Flea of Sodom (1950)
The Sorrows of Priapus (1957)
Truth Is More Sacred (1961)
Because I Was Flesh (1964, memoir)
Alms for Oblivion (1964, essays)
Reasons of the Heart (1965, maxims)
Cipango's Hinder Door (1965, poetry)
The Dahlberg Reader (1967, anthology)
Epitaphs of Our Times (1967, letters)
The Leafless American (1967)
The Carnal Myth (1968)
The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg (1971, memoir)
The Olive of Minerva (1976, novel)

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