Martin Duberman
Historian, biographer and playwright
Martin Duberman is a US historian, biographer and playwright, and an activist for gay rights. He wrote Stonewall.
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American Born 1930 in New York City, United States
About Martin Duberman
Martin Bauml Duberman was born in New York City in 1930. He graduated from Yale in 1952 and completed a doctorate in American history at Harvard in 1957. In 1971 he gave up a tenured position at Princeton University and moved to Lehman College in New York City, where he was a Distinguished Professor of History. He later became a professor emeritus there. In 1973 he came out as gay in an essay for the New York Times. He has written widely on civil rights and many other subjects since then. His books include Stonewall.