A Walker in the City
1951 cover | |
| Author | Alfred Kazin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Publisher | Harcourt |
Publication date | 1951 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 9780156941761 |
A Walker in the City is the 1951 memoir by New York intellectual, writer and literary critic, Alfred Kazin. Kazin writes about his childhood in the then-Jewish neighborhood of Brownsville in Brooklyn. It was followed by the memoirs, Starting Out in the Thirties (1965) and New York Jew (1978).