Career
He started as a copy boy at the Washington Post at age 18, and started writing as a reporter.
He moved to New York and at age nineteen was hired by The New Yorker. The editor William Shawn encouraged him to write fiction, and Brossard became a writer and editor. He wrote or edited a total of 17 books, both novels and non-fiction.
During his career, Brossard worked for several magazines: he went to become a senior editor for Time magazine, managing editor at Coronet, executive editor for The American Mercury, and senior editor for Look magazine (1956-1967). He also wrote criticism for The Nation, Commentary, and The Guardian.
From 1969-1971, Brossard was a professor at the newly founded Old Westbury College on Long Island. He later held teaching appointments as a visiting professor, writer-in-residence, or lecturer at other universities both in the United States and abroad, including the University of Birmingham in England, The New School for Social Research in New York, Schiller College in Paris, the University of California at Riverside, and the University of San Diego.
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