Because I Was Flesh (ePub)

Edward Dahlberg (July 22, 1900 - February 27, 1977) was an American novelist, essayist and autobiographer.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was sent to the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Cleveland, Ohio in 1912, where he lived until 1917.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army during the last days of World War I, losing the use of an eye after being struck with a rifle butt. He attended the University of California, Berkeley (1922-23) and Columbia University (B.S. in philosophy. 1925). In the late 1920s, Dahlberg became part of the expatriate group of American writers living in Paris, where he knew Joyce, Beckett, O'Casey, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Yeats, D.H. Lawrence and many others. His first novel, Bottom Dogs, was based on his childhood experiences at the orphanage and his travels in the American West.
He visited Germany in 1933 where he wrote anti-Nazi articles for the London Times and counseled many German intellectuals, Jews, communists and anarchists to flee Germany. In 1934 he published the first American anti-Nazi novel, Those Who Perish.
A proletarian novelist of the 1930s, a spokesman for a fundamental humanism in the 1940s. He was an important member and editor for the Stieglitz Group which promoted human rights all over the world. He spoke out against the mistreatment of African Americans, Jews, immigrants, and workers.
From the 1940s onwards, Dahlberg continued writing and also taught at various colleges and universities, including Boston University (1944-1948). He moved to the Danish island of Bornholm in 1955 while working on The Flea of Sodom and to Sóller in Mallorca when writing Because I Was Flesh (1963). During the 1960s and 1970s, he published poetry, autobiographical works, fiction and criticism.
In 1968, he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976

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