Edward Said

Edward Said was born November 1, 1935. He was an English Professor at Columbia University, a literary theorist, and a public intellectual. Even though he was born in Jerusalem, he became an American citizen because of his father. Edward Said was best known as a cultural critic, writer, and academic. His book Orientalism, talked about the Western and East studies of culture. He died on September 25, 2003 in New York City.