David Zane Mairowitz
Encyclopedia
David Zane Mairowitz is a writer. He studied English Literature and Philosophy at Hunter College
, New York, and Drama at the University of California, Berkeley
.
In 1966 he emigrated to England
, where he worked as a freelance writer. He was one of the founding editors of International Times
.
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
, New York, and Drama at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
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In 1966 he emigrated to England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, where he worked as a freelance writer. He was one of the founding editors of International Times
International Times
International Times was an underground newspaper founded in London in 1966. Editors included Hoppy, David Mairowitz, Pete Stansill, Barry Miles, Jim Haynes and playwright Tom McGrath...
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Works
- The Law Circus (1969), a play.
- BAMN: Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera 1965-70 (1971), editor with Peter Stansill.
- Flash Gordon and the Angels (1971), a play.
- The Radical Soap Opera: Roots of Failure in the American Left (1974).
- Kafka for Beginners, also known as Introducing KafkaIntroducing KafkaIntroducing Kafka, also known as Kafka for Beginners, is an illustrated biography of Franz Kafka by David Zane Mairowitz and Robert Crumb...
, illustrated by Robert CrumbRobert CrumbRobert Dennis Crumb —known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb—is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded...
. - Introducing Camus, illustrated by Alain Korkos.