Hilton Obenzinger (born 1947 in Brooklyn) is an American novelist, poet, history and criticism writer.
Obenzinger was born in Brooklyn in 1947, and raised in Queens.
He was active in the Columbia University protests of 1968.
[citation needed] He taught at the Yurok Indian reservation along the Klamath River in northern California, 1969–1970.
He taught at Stanford University, where he is associate director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project.