Charles Hamm (1925-2011) died on October 16th at the age of 86. He was one of the first historians to seriously study the field of American popular music. In books such as Contemporary Music and Music Cultures (ML197 .H245 C6) and Yesterdays: Popular Song in America (ML3561 .P6 H35) he studied the history and cultural impact of contemporary music often frowned upon by his fellow musicologists. His New York Times obituary can be found here.
John Morton Blum (1921-2011) died on October 17th at the age of 90. He was a historian who helped pioneer the study of the 20th century American presidency. His biography, The Republican Roosevelt (E757 .B58 1962), was vital in establishing Theodore Roosevelt’s reputation as a great president. His New York Times obituary can be found here.
Ruby Cohn (1922-2011) died on October 18th at the age of 89. She was a scholar who, after seeing a performance of the play “Waiting for Godot” by a then unknown Samuel Beckett, became a leading authority on the playwright’s work. The Library owns several titles that she either wrote or edited:
Casebook on Waiting for Godot (PQ2603 .E378 E63)
Currents in Contemporary Drama (PN1861 .C6 1969)
Dialogue in American Drama (PS351 .C6 1971)
Edward Albee (PS3551 .L25 Z6)
Samuel Beckett: the Comic Gamut (PR6003 .E282 Z62)
Her New York Times obituary can be found here.
James Hillman (1926-2011) died on October 27th at the age of 85. He was a psychologist, best-selling author, and popular lecturer who was influential in the field of archetypal psychology. He is perhaps best-known for 1964′s Suicide and the Soul (RC506 .H5 1973) and 1975′s Re-Visioning Psychology, which garnered him a Pulitzer Prize nomination. The Library owns several more of his books: The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology (BF173 .J85 H53) and The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling (BF697 .H46 1996). His New York Times obituary can be found here.
Allen Mandelbaum (1926-2011) died on October 27th at the age of 85. He was a poet, translator, and professor of Italian literature. He was best known for his translation of works by Italian poets such as Salvatore Quasimodo (Selected Writings (PQ4837 .U3 A25)) and for his translations of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy and Virgil’s Aeneid, for which he won the 1973 National Book Award for Translation. His New York Times obituary can be found here.
