Edward Dahlberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and with his mother led a vagabond existence until 1905 when they moved to Kansas City. He grew up in orphanages, then enlisted in the U.S. Army during WWI, eventually settling in Paris where he lived with a group of expatriate American writers. There Dahlberg wrote his first novel, Bottom Dogs, based on his childhood. He returned to the U.S., moved to Greenwich Village, attended university, then visited Germany, which prompted him to write the first anti‐Nazi novel, Those Who Perish. In the 1940s, he was an important member and editor for the Stieglitz Group, which promoted human rights around the world. During the 1960s and 70s, he became quite prolific, writing poetry, essays, autobiographical and critical works. Dahlberg died in Santa Barbara, California, on February 27, 1977.