Haig Bosmajian, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Haig Bosmajian

American writer

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1928

Date of Death: 17-Jun-2014

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Haig Aram Bosmajian (March 26, 1928- June 17, 2014) was an author, lecturer, and professor, who received the 1983 Orwell Award for his book The Language of Oppression (1974).
Haig Bosmajian received a PhD in 1960 from Stanford University.
His work has explored rhetoric and the freedom of speech.
Bosmajian was professor emeritus at the University of Washington, in the Speech/Communications Department, where he taught since 1965.
He was married for 57 years to Hamida Bosmajian, also a published author and a professor at nearby Seattle University.Haig and Hamida Bosmajian wrote the textbook, The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement (1969), which has been published as a student textbook to analyze strategies of rhetoric.