Seymour Krim ✓

About Seymour Krim

Seymour Krim was an American author, editor and literary critic. In the 1950s and '60s, he contributed essays and journalistic pieces to The Village Voice, New York Herald Tribune, The Evergreen Review, Commentary, and Commonweal. Krim's best-known book was the 1961 essay collection, Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer. With his "naked, introspective" prose style, he was often linked to Beat Generation writers and to the New Journalism.