Paul Zweig (July 14, 1935 – August 29, 1984) was an American poet, memoirist, and critic known for his study on Walt Whitman.
He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School,[3] entered Columbia University to study engineering but switched to literature after taking classes taught by Mark Van Doren.
[5] He lived in France and studied at the University of Paris, earning his PhD in comparative literature before returning to the United States in 1966.
[3] Zweig taught at Columbia and Queens College and served as chair of its department of comparative literature in alternate years.
[1] Zweig received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976 and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 1984 for his study on Walt Whitman.