Wallenstein, Barry

Contemporary Authors Online , Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thomson Gale, 2006.

American literary scholar and poet Barry Wallenstein met American author James T. Farrell in the early 1960s when he co-edited, with author and editor Jack Salzman, an anthology of 1930s writings entitled Years of Protest (1967). Farrell was the initiator and advisor for this project. Wallenstein's other critical work includes volumes on Syliva Plath and poetic theory and criticism. Wallenstein has published several volumes of poetry, including Beast Is a Wolf With Brown Fire (1977); Roller Coaster Kid and Other Poems (1982); Love and Crush (1991); The Short Life of the Five Minute Dancer (1993); and A Measure of Conduct (1999) . He serves as an associate editor of The American Book Review and was a founding member of the Poetry Outreach Center at the City College of New York

Much of American novelist James T. Farrell's (1904-1979) fiction is set in his hometown of Chicago and addresses issues of the city's working class. Farrell published more than twenty-five novels during his lifetime, as well as numerous collections of stories and works of criticism. He is best known for his Studs Lonigan Trilogy (1935) and for a series of five novels centered around the character Danny O'Neill. Farrell was also active in contemporary politics and is generally associated with writers of the American left who emerged during the 1930s and 1940s. In his later years, Farrell devoted much of his writing to a cycle of novels titled A Universe of Time , which he began writing in the early 1960s and which he projected to include approximately thirty titles.

From the guide to the Barry Wallenstein - James T. Farrell collection, 1929-1975, (University of Delaware Library - Special Collections)