Name Frank Manuel Role Historian | ||
Died April 23, 2003, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada, National Book Award for History (Paperback) Nominations National Book Award for The Sciences, National Book Award for History (Hardcover) Books A Requiem for Karl Marx, The Broken Staff: Judaism, The politics of modern Spain, The Realities of American, Scenes from the End: The | ||
Frank Edward Manuel (12 September 1910 – 2003) was an American historian, Kenan Professor of History, emeritus, at New York University and Alfred and Viola Hart University Professor, emeritus, at Brandeis University. He was known for his work on the idea of utopia. In 1980, he and his wife, Fritzie P. Manuel, won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for their book Utopian Thought in the Western World (1979). In 1983 they won the National Book Award for the paperback edition of the same work.
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Early life and family
Manuel was born in Boston on 12 September 1910. He attended Harvard University, earning his A.B. in 1930, his M.A. in 1931, and his Ph.D. in 1933. He married Fritzie Prigohzy on 6 October 1936.
Career
Manuel taught at Harvard from 1935 to 1937, after which he had a number of short-term jobs and began to teach at Brandeis University, where he stayed until 1965, when he joined New York University. He returned to Brandeis in 1977. He was Kenan Professor of History, emeritus, at New York University and Alfred and Viola Hart University Professor, emeritus, at Brandeis University.
Manuel was known for his work on the history of the idea of Utopias. In 1980, he and Fritzie won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for their book Utopian Thought in the Western World (1979), which the Times Higher Education Supplement described as "the starting point for all Utopian scholarship". In 1983 they won the National Book Award for the paperback edition of the same work.