The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Erwing Goffman

Erving Goffman was born to parents Max and Anne Goffman in Manville, Alberta on June 11, 1922. He was married to Angelica Choate in 1952, with whom he had one son, Tom. Angelica committed suicide in 1964. In 1981 he married the Canadian linguist Gillian  Sankoff, with whom he had a daughter, Alice. On November 20, 1982 he died of stomach cancer. Goffman was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, on a par with Weber, Durkheim, Marx, and Mead, in whose footsteps he followed in developing a sociological social psychology.

His activity during his entire life can easily prove that: He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto in his native Canada in 1945.  His master's and doctorate were granted by the University of Chicago in 1949 and 1953, respectively, where he studied both sociology and social anthropology.  While working on his doctorate, he spent a year on one of the smaller of the Shetland islands gathering material for his dissertation and his book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1959; which is available in at least ten different languages and has been almost continuously in print.