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(1936-2011) Historian. Robert Sklar was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and died in Barcelona, Spain.

Full Name

Robert Sklar

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1936

BIRTH

Robert Anthony Sklar was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on December 3, 1936.

1967

LITWORK

F Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoon
London: Oxford University Press.

Nonfiction.

1975

LITWORK

Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies


History.

1977

OTHER

Mr. Sklar was a professor at New York University from 1977 to 2009.

1980

LITWORK

Prime-Time America: Life on and Behind the Television Screen


Nonfiction.

1980

LITWORK

Rotisserie League Baseball


Edited with Glen Waggoner in the 1980s.

1992

LITWORK

City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield


Nonfiction.

1993

LITWORK

Film: An International History of the Medium


Nonfiction.

2000

LITWORK

Silent Screens: The Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater


Nonfiction.

2003

LITWORK

A World History of Film


History.

2011

DEATH

Robert Sklar died in Barcelona, Spain, on July 2, 2011.

2011

RESIDENCE

Mr. Sklar lived in Manhattan, New York.

2011

RESIDENCE

Mr. Sklar lived in Sag Harbor, New York.

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