Daniel Aaron

• Born: 1912
• Birthplace: Chicago, IL

Harvard professor Daniel Aaron is a scholar of American history and American studies. Among the books he has written or edited are: The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession, The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War, Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism, American Notes: Selected Essays, American Notes: Selected Essays, Writers on the Left, Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, 1819-1838, Studies in Biography, and The strenuous decade; a social and intellectual record of the 1930's.

Most Famous Works

• Writers on the Left (1961)
• Studies in Biography (1978)
• The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession (1985)