Theodore Rosengarten

Theodore Rosengarten (born December 17, 1944^[1]) is an American historian.

He graduated from Amherst College in 1966 with a BA, and received his PhD from Harvard for a thesis which became the National Book Award winning non-fiction All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, which was adapted into a one-man play starring Cleavon Little at the Lamb's Theater.^[2]

Awards

• 1989 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, Knopf, 1974, ISBN 9780394490847
• Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter, Authors Theodore Rosengarten, Thomas Benjamin Chaplin, Editor Susan W. Walker, Morrow, 1986, ISBN 9780688054120
• Land of Deepest Shade: Photographs of the South, authors Theodore Rosengarten, Photographs John McWilliams, High Museum of Art, 1989, ISBN 9780893813925
• "A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life", Editors Theodore Rosengarten, Dale Rosengarten, University of South Carolina Press, 2002, ISBN 9781570034459
• Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, Authors Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, Enid Schildkrout, Judith Ann Carney, Museum for African Art, 2008, ISBN 9780945802501

References

External links

• "The Hem of My Garment: An Interview with Theodore Rosengarten about the Making of "Nate Shaw"", George Abbott White and Theodore Rosengarten, The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Winter, 1980), pp. 787–800