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Robert Hamburger

Professor at New Jersey City University

1986-1987 and 2002 Fulbright Senior Lecturer to India

1977, 1979, 1990 Writer in Residence at The MacDowell Colony

1989 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

1980 Writer in Residence at The Ossabaw Island Project

1977-78 Fulbright Junior Lecturer to France

Publications are:

Shiraz (XOXOX Press: Gambier, OH, 2006).

A Passage Through India (Spuyten Duyvil: NY, 1998).

Two Rooms: The Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood (U. of

Nebraska Press, 1998).

All The Lonely People: Life In a Single Room Occupancy Hotel (Ticknor &

Fields: New York, 1983).

A Stranger in the House: Personal Narratives from Black Household

Workers (Macmillan Publishing: New York, 1978).

Our Portion of Hell: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in

Fayette County, Tennessee (Links Books: NY, 1973).


“If you're trying to disguise yourself to fool an approaching enemy, then try impersonating a nutsack. Just puff out your cheeks and look uninterested.”
Robert Hamburger
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