Harry Zohn | |
Birth Date: | November 1923 |
Birth Place: | Vienna |
Occupation: | essayist and translator |
Nationality: | Austrian |
Citizenship: | United States of America |
Alma Mater: | Suffolk University (BA) Clark University (MAT) Harvard University (PhD)[1] |
Harry Zohn (November 21, 1923, Vienna – June 3, 2001, Boston) was an Austrian American literary historian, essayist and translator from German into English.[2] [3] [4] Zohn was born in Austria. Aged 15 he fled to England in June 1938, where he was classified as an enemy alien, and worked as a farm labourer. He was lsubsequently joined there by his parents, and the family emigrated to the United States in 1940, settling in Boston.