Ira Nadel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ira Nadel

American writer

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1943

Place of Birth: Rahway, New Jersey, United States

Profession: writer, biographer, literary critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Ira Bruce Nadel (born July 22, 1943) is an American-Canadian biographer, literary critic and James Joyce scholar, and a distinguished professor at the University of British Columbia.
He has written books on the twentieth-century Modernists, especially Ezra Pound and Joyce, biographies of Leonard Cohen and Leon Uris, and on Jewish-American authors.
He has won Canadian literary awards, and has edited and written the introduction to a number of scholarly books and period pieces.
He is a critic of the Olympic torch relay as a legacy of the Nazis.