ABSTRACT
Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was a postcolonial literary critic and the Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Born in Jerusalem, Said’s Palestinian family became refugees in 1948 and moved to Egypt, where he attended British schools. He also spent time during his youth in Lebanon and Jordan before immigrating to the United States. He earned his BA from Princeton University in 1957 and his PhD in literature from Harvard University in 1964. While at Princeton, he also studied piano at the Juilliard School in New York. He spent his entire academic career as Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He died in New York in 2003 after a long battle with leukemia.
