Edward Hoagland

Edward Morley Hoagland was born in Manhattan, New York City on December 21, 1932. He has taught at The New School, Rutgers, Sarah Lawrence, CUNY, the University of Iowa, U.C. Davis, Columbia University, Beloit College, and Brown University. In 2005, Hoagland retired from a teaching position at Bennington College in Vermont. Since 1968, he has focused most of his energies on Montaigne-type essays. According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Following his retirement, he spent his summers in Barton, Vermont, at a place he owned from 1969, and his winters in Martha's Vineyard. Hoagland died in Manhattan on February 17, 2026, at the age of 93. ==Critique==

His non-fiction has been praised by writers and critics such as John Updike, who called him "the best essayist of my generation"; Philip Roth, who called him "America’s most intelligent and wide-ranging essayist-naturalist"; and Alfred Kazin, who said he "writes for magazines on all manner of topics with regular, predictable brilliance". ==Bibliography==