Edgar Zodaig Friedenberg (March 18, 1921 – June 1, 2000) was an American scholar of education and gender studies best known for The Vanishing Adolescent (1959) and Coming of Age in America (1965).
Edgar Z. Friedenberg was born in New York City on March 18, 1921,[1] and was raised in Shreveport, Louisiana.
He studied chemistry at the small, local Centenary College of Louisiana and earned a master's degree in the subject from Stanford University.
World War II paused his studies, as Friedenberg served in the Navy and returned to finish his doctorate in education at the University of Chicago[2] in 1946.
[5] Friedenberg left the United States for Canada in 1970 to protest the Vietnam War,[6] where he became active in the Canadian Civil Liberties Association[3] and taught at Dalhousie University for the rest of his life.