Hilton Obenzinger, Lecturer Primary Office: 460-222
Office Hours: Mon. 1:30-2:30 & Wed. 1:30-2:30 & 5:30-6:30 pm
Office Phone: 650-723-0330 At Stanford Since: 1995 Email: obenzinger@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Honors Essay Workshop Degrees: Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997 M.A., California State University at San Francisco, 1981 B.A., Columbia University, 1969 Titles: Associate Director for Honors and Advanced Writing, the Hume Writing Center | 
Hilton Obenzinger writes fiction, poetry, history and criticism. He has most recently published the autobiographical novel Busy Dying. His other books include a*hole, an experimental novel of children, art, and the cosmos; Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust by Zosia Goldberg as told to Hilton Obenzinger, an oral history of his aunt's ordeal during the war; American Palestine: Melville, Twain and the Holy Land Mania, a literary and historical study of America's fascination with the Holy Land; Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco, a novel of invented documents that recounts the history of San Francisco from the Spanish conquest to the 1906 earthquake and fire; New York on Fire, a history of the fires of New York in verse, selected by the Village Voice as one of the best books of the year and nominated by the Bay Area Book Reviewer's Association for its award in poetry; This Passover Or The Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem, which received the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation. He has also contributed articles to journals and edited collections on Mark Twain, Herman Melville, American travel to the Holy Land/Palestine/Israel, and other literary and cultural topics. Born in 1947 in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, and graduating Columbia University in 1969, he has taught on the Yurok Indian Reservation, operated a community printing press in San Francisco's Mission District, co-edited a publication devoted to Middle East peace, worked as a commercial writer and instructional designer. He received his doctorate in the Modern Thought and Literature Program at Stanford University in 1997. He is Associate Director for Honors and Advanced Writing, the Hume Writing Center.
Links: Obenzinger Web Site |