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Theodore Roszak (November 15, 1933 – July 5, 2011) was an American academic and novelist who concluded his academic career as Professor Emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay.[1] He is best known for his 1969 text The Making of a Counter Culture.
Biography

Roszak was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933 to Anton and Blanche Roszak.[2] His parents were Roman Catholic; his father was a cabinet maker and his mother was a homemaker.[2] Roszak attended Chicago public schools.[2]

Roszak completed his B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1955.[3] He then received his Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 1958[3] after completing a doctoral dissertation titled `Thomas Cromwell and the Henrican reformation.`[4]

His academic career began by teaching at Stanford University from 1958 to 1963[3][2] before joining Cal State Hayward.[3][2] During the 1960s, he lived in London, where he edited the newspaper Peace News from 1964 to 1965.[5][2] He also taught as a visiting professor at San Francisco State University in 1981 and Schumacher College in 1991.[6][7] He was featured prominently in the `Alternative Lifestyles in California` episode of the 1977 BBC television series, The Long Search.

His writing career began in 1966 when he started contributing to The Nation and The Atlantic.[2]

Theodore Roszak died at age 77 at his home in Berkeley, California, on July 5, 2011.[8]
Scholarship

Roszak first came to public prominence in 1969, with the publication of his The Making of a Counter Culture[9] which chronicled and gave explanation to the European and North American counterculture of the 1960s. He is generally credited with the first use of the term `counterculture`.[10][11][12][13] According to historian Todd Gitlin, `People were trying to figure out, `What is this thing that has come upon us?` He named it`.[14]

Other books include Where the Wasteland Ends,[15][16][17] The Voice of the Earth (in which he coined the term for the budding field of Ecopsychology),[18][19] Person/Planet,[20] The Cult of Information,[21][22][23] The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science,[24] and Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders.[25] He also co-edited (with Mary Gomes and Allen Kanner) the anthology Ecopsychology: Healing the Mind, Restoring the Earth,[26] and (with his wife Betty) the anthology Masculine/Feminine: Essays on Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women.
Fiction

His fiction includes a cult novel on the `secret history` of the cinema titled Flicker (Simon and Schuster, Bantam Books and Chicago Review Press) and the award-winning Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Random House and Bantam Books).[27][28][29] In a 1995 interview with Publishers Weekly, Roszak said, `For me, nonfiction was a detour I took on the way to fiction,` and `But writing fiction is like working without a net, and it took me a long time to write something that was good enough to be published. When opportunities to write nonfiction came along, I took them. [...] But if things had turned out the way I wanted, I would always have been a novelist.`[30] His final novel, published in 2003, is The Devil and Daniel Silverman.[31]
Awards and honors

New York Open Center in 1999 for his `Prescient and Influential Analysis of American Culture`
Guggenheim Fellow and was twice nominated for the National Book Award.[7]
1995 Tiptree Award for The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
2009 Grand prix de l`Imaginaire for Foreign Language Novel, The Crystal Child: A Story of the Buried Life

Publications
Non-fiction

The Dissenting Academy (1968)[32][33][34]
The Making of a Counter Culture (1969)
Masculine/Feminine: Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women (1969)
Where the Wasteland Ends (1972)
Sources (1972)
Unfinished Animal: The Aquarian Frontier and the Evolution of Consciousness (1975)[35]
Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society (1979)
From Satori to Silicon Valley (1986)
Roszak, Theodore (1986). The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking. ISBN 9780520085848.
Fool`s Cycle/Full Cycle (1988) ISBN 0-931191-07-6
The Voice of the Earth (1992); 2nd edition (2001), Phanes Press, ISBN 978-1890482800
The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking (1994) 2nd edition
The Gendered Atom (1999)
Kanner, Roszak, & Gomes. Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. Sierra Club Books (1995) ISBN 0-87156-406-8
World Beware! American Triumphalism in an Age of Terror (2006, ISBN 1-897071-02-7)
The Making of an Elder Culture: Reflections on the Future of America`s Most Audacious Generation. (2009) New Society Publishers. ISBN 978-0-86571-661-2

Essays

`Birth of an Old Generation`
`When the Counterculture Counted
`Raging Against the Machine: In its `1984` Commercial, Apple Suggested that its Computers Would Smash Big Brother. But Technology Gave Him More Control.` Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2004.

Fiction

Pontifex (1974)
Bugs (1981)
Dreamwatcher (1985)
Flicker (1991)
The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (1995)
The Devil and Daniel Silverman (2003) Leapfrog. ISBN 0-9679520-7-7
The Crystal Child: A Story of the Buried Life (2013). Posth.

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