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(1934-2021) Author. Vartan Gregorian was born in Tabriz, Iran, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Vartan Gregorian

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

Unknown

RESIDENCE

Mr. Gregorian lived in Midtown Manhattan, New York.

1934

BIRTH

Vartan Gregorian was born in the Armenian quarter of Tabriz, in northwest Iran, on April 8, 1934.

1969

LITWORK

The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization, 1880-1946
Stanford University Press
0804707065 / 978-0804707060
Nonfiction.

1981

OTHER

Mr. Gregorian was president of the New York Public Library from 1981 to 1989.

1984

OTHER

Mr. Gregorian taught at New York University and at The New School for Social Research from 1984 to 1989.

2003

LITWORK

Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith
Brookings Institution Press
0815732821 / 978-0815732822
Nonfiction.

2003

LITWORK

The Road to Home: My Life and Times
Simon & Schuster
068480834X / 978-0684808345
Memoir.

2021

DEATH

Vartan Gregorian died at a hospital in Manhattan, New York, on April 15, 2021.

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