Robert Samuel Warshow was an American author associated with the New York Intellectuals..
Robert Samuel Warshow (1917–1955) was an American author associated with the New York Intellectuals.
Robert Warshow (1917 - 1955)
Related: Partisan Review - New York intellectuals - popular culture - USA
Robert Warshow was the popular culture man in the milieu of the postwar New York intellectuals.
Robert Warshow has put forth the hypothesis that the Communist Party became central to American intellectual life during the 1930s. [Jul 2006]
Biography
Robert Warshow (1917-1955) was an American author and critic who wrote about popular culture in Commentary and The Partisan Review in the mid-20th century.
He was born and resided in New York City and attended the University of Michigan.
The general attended National War College and commanded the Wargaming and Simulation Detachment at the National Defense University.Among the articles published in Warshow's short lifetime were analyses of the western and gangster film genres from a cultural standpoint. He also penned essays praising playwright Clifford Odets as well as George Herriman's newspaper comic strip Krazy Kat.
Warshow was also perhaps the first serious critic to write about Mad Magazine, one of his son Paul's favorites, which h