Stan Tamarkin is a retired business man. For thirty-five years he was a dealer and an auctioneer specializing in new and collectible Leica cameras with showrooms in New Haven and New York. He has a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale and taught briefly at Yale, Connecticut College, and the University of Rhode Island. With an undergraduate degree and a M.A. in English literature, he came to Yale to study Twain and Faulkner but during his time in American studies he made a transition from literature to history and became an historian specializing in American social history with special interests in labor, ethnicity, the American left, and psychoanalysis, the latter a result of studying at the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute. His current interests are American political history, the Civil War, British political history after 1900, and the history of psychoanalysis. He is an avid, but poor, golfer, and a devoted photographer. He lives in Woodbridge with his wife, Jane, an actress and director.
