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A Short Biography of Albert Jay Nock

Author Name:

Albert Jay Nock

Born As:

Albert Jay Nock

Other Names:

Born:

13 Oct 1870

Died:

19 Aug 1945




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Author and educational theorist                          
Selected Works:

The Myth of a Guilty Nation - 1922
The Freeman Book - 1924
Jefferson - also known as Mr Jefferson
On Doing the Right Thing, and Other Essays - 1928
Francis Rabelais: The Man and His Work - 1929
The Book of Journeyman: Essays from the New Freeman - 1930
The Theory of Education in the United States - 1932
A Journey Into Rabelais's France - 1934
A Journal of These Days: June 1932-December 1933 - 1934
Our Enemy, the State - 1935
Free Speech and Plain Language - 1937
Henry George: An Essay - 1939
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man - 1943

Published posthumously:

A Journal of Forgotten Days: May 1934-October 1935 - Henry Regnery Company - 1948
Letters from Albert Jay Nock, 1924–1945, to Edmund C Evans, Mrs Edmund C Evans, and Ellen Winsor - 1949
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man - 1943
Snoring as a Fine Art and Twelve Other Essays - 1958
Selected Letters of Albert Jay Nock - 1962
Cogitations from Albert Jay Nock - 1970, revised edition - 1985
The State of the Union: Essays in Social Criticism - 1991
The Disadvantages of Being Educated and Other Essays - 1996                          
Wife Agnes Grumbine in 1900 and had two children but separated from his wife after only a few years of marriage. In 1909 Nock left the clergy and became a journalist.