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Anthony Heilbut (born November 22, 1940), is an American writer, and record producer of gospel music. He is noted for his biography of Thomas Mann, and has also won a Grammy Award. ==Life== He has a doctorate in English from Harvard University. Anthony Heilbut, the son of German Jewish refugees, Bertha and Otto Heilbut, was born in New York. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University when he was 25. For the next ten years he taught, first at New York University and then at Hunter College. Since 1976 he has been a full-time writer and record producer. Heilbut's first book, ''The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times'', was published in 1971 and has been updated several times since then; a "25th Anniversary Edition" appeared in 1997. James Baldwin said, It's a very beautiful book, with love and precision, no pity -- a little like a gospel song ... I didn't know that anybody knew that much about it, or cared that much, or could be so tough and lucid.Counter-Punch magazine selected it as one of its top 100 books of the 20th century. ''Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from 1930s to the Present'' was published in 1983 and updated in 1997. It was a finalist for ''The Los Angeles Times'' Book of the Year. In 2003, a conference entitled "Exiled in Paradise" was held at Los Angeles' Villa Aurora, the palatial residence of Lion Feuchtwanger, one of the best known emigre writers. (Ironically Feuchtwanger's famous novel, ''The Oppermanns'', was inspired by Otto Heilbut's cousin Wilfried Israel. Wilfried, whom Christopher Isherwood called "the greatest man I ever met", was also the inspiration for the character of Herr Landauer in Isherwood's ''Goodbye to Berlin''.) Heilbut's ''Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature'' was published in 1996. ''The New York Times'' called the book "brilliant" and "astonishing." Colm Toibin in ''The London Review of Books'' called it "brilliantly perceptive," and the London ''Independent'' called it "endlessly stimulating." In 1997 it received the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Non-Fiction from the Publishing Triangle. He has written reviews and articles for, among others, ''Harper's Magazine'',''The New York Times Book Review'', ''The Nation'', ''Truthdig'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Dimensions'', ''The Village Voice'', ''The Daily Beast'',''The Believer'', ''The Los Angeles Times'' Book Review, ''Black Women in America'', and ''The Encyclopedia of New York City''. Heilbut's ''The Fan Who Knew Too Much'', a collection of cultural essays published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2012., ranges from Thomas Mann to the gay and lesbian influence on gospel music. The book has won the "Deems Taylor ASCAP Award", and was chosen by Lorin Stein, Editor of the Paris Review as one of his seven favorite books of 2012. The book was released in paperback by Soft Skull Press in the fall of 2013. He has appeared in several documentaries including ''Rejoice and Shout'' (2011) and ''Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock and Roll'' (2011). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony Heilbut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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