According to the OED, he introduced the term "postmodern" into literature, and is known for being the first to consider race and sexuality in American fiction.
This critic was commissioned to write "Afterthoughts on the Rosenbergs" for Encounter magazine, an article controversial as it mocked the dead couple and celebrated their demise. Some of his critical collections include The Art of the Essay, and The Stranger in Shakespeare, and he is famous for being arrested for supposed drug charges, recounted in Being Busted. According to the OED, he introduced the term "postmodern" into literature, and is known for being the first to consider race and sexuality in American fiction. FTP, identify this recently deceased University of Buffalo critic, author of Love and Death in the American Novel.
This critic was commissioned to write "Afterthoughts on the Rosenbergs" for Encounter magazine, an article controversial as it mocked the dead couple and celebrated their demise.
Leslie {Fiedler}