Hilton Obenzinger (born 1947 inBrooklyn) is an Americannovelist,poet, history and criticism writer.

Obenzinger was born inBrooklyn in 1947, and raised inQueens. He graduated fromColumbia University in 1969 and fromStanford University with a PhD in 1997. He was active in theColumbia University protests of 1968.^{[citation needed]} He taught at theYurok Indian reservation along theKlamath River in northern California, 1969–1970.He taught atStanford University, where he is associate director of theChinese Railroad Workers in North America Project.^[1][2]

• 1982American Book Award forThis Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem^[3]

• Obenzinger, Hilton (2021).Witness: 2017-2020. Irene Weinberger Books.ISBN 9780990376798.
• Obenzinger, Hilton (2017).Treyf Pesach. Ithuriel's Spear.ISBN 978-1-943209-16-3.
• Obenzinger, Hilton (2015).How We Write: The Varieties of Writing Experience. Createspace.ISBN 9781517152604.
• Obenzinger, Hilton (2008).Busy Dying. Chax Press.ISBN 978-0-925904-73-7.^[4]
• Obenzinger, Hilton (2004).A*Hole. Soft Skull Press.ISBN 978-1-932360-46-2.
• Zosia Goldberg (2004). Hilton Obenzinger (ed.).Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust. Mercury House.ISBN 978-1-56279-128-5.^[5]
• Obenzinger, Hilton (1999).American Palestine: Melville, Twain and the Holy Land Mania. Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-691-00973-5.^[6]
• Obenzinger, Hilton (1993).Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco. Mercury House.ISBN 978-1-56279-047-9.^[7]
• Obenzinger, Hilton (October 1989).New York on Fire. Real Comet Press.ISBN 9780941104401.^[8]
• Obenzinger, Hilton (1980).This Passover Or The Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem. Momo's Press.ISBN 978-0-917672-12-5.^[9]
• Obenzinger, Hilton (1974).Bright Lights! Big City! (early Poems). Adventures in Poetry.

• Official website
• "Hilton Obenzinger",Columbia 1968

• 1947 births
• Columbia College, Columbia University alumni
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• 21st-century American Jews
• 20th-century American poets
• American male poets

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