Oral history interview with Diana Trilling, 1993

Biographical Note

Writer and critic

Scope and Contents

Columbia University 1920s, Marriage to Lionel Trilling 1929, early political involvement, Scottsboro Case; writing career, fiction critic The Nation, Partisan Review. Lionel Trilling, personality, politics, career of, view of Freud, Menorah Journal, self identity of, writings; New York intellectuals, definitions of, politics of, relations among, Marxism and, anticommunism of, treatment of women by, class backgrounds of; American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Chair, Executive Board, Columbia Crisis 1968, commentary on the New Left; neoconservatism

Subjects

• Dorman, Joseph, 1958- interviewer.
• Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Trilling, Diana--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by Joseph Dorman