Hart, John E., 1917-2011

The novelist Albert Halper was born in Chicago in 1904 and died in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1984. The novelist Albert Halper was born in Chicago in 1904 and died in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1984. After graduating from high school and working at a number of jobs in Chicago, Halper moved to New York City in 1929 with the goal of becoming a writer. His first published novel, Union Square, appeared in 1931 and was a Literary Guild selection. Halper followed this novel with a series of books based on his life in Chicago, notably a book of short stories, On the Shore (1934), and the novels, The Foundry (1934), The Chute (1937), Sons of the Fathers (1940), and The Little People (1942). Over the course of his career, Halper published three more novels ( Only an Inch from Glory, Atlantic Avenue, The Fourth Horseman of Miami Beach ), and two collections of essays and short stories. He also wrote two plays and the memoir, Good-bye, Union Square .

John E. Hart was born in Kansas in 1917. From 1954 until his retirement in 1981, he was professor of English and American Literature at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. Professor Hart’s study of the American novelist Floyd Dell was published by Twayne in 1971. His Albert Halper, also published by Twayne, appeared in 1978.

Hart, John E. “Albert Halper.” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Volume 1: 1981 – 1985. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1998. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group 2001. http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC Other information is derived from the collection.

Albion College English professor, 1954-1982, interested in American writers of the 1920's and 1930's.

Hart's published works include critical studies of authors Albert Halper and Floyd Dell. He also produced numerous scholarly articles.