Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin, an American writer, sociologist, communications scholar, novelist, poet, and not very private intellectual, is the author of eighteen books, including the novels The Murder of Albert Einstein (1992), Sacrifice (1999), Undying (2011), and The Opposition (2022), and a book of poetry, Busy Being Born (1974). In 2000, Sacrifice won the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for books on Jewish themes. 

Gitlin died at the age of seventy-nine on February 5, 2022.