Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

male, 80 years old (Stony Brook, New York, United States)
linguist, philosopher, Left Wing, Chomsky hierarchy, philosopher of mind, theoretical linguistics…CIA critic, Critic
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He...
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

male, deceased (1849)
poet, Short story writer, Romanticism, Horror writer, American, Detective fiction…Critic
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the...
Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell

male, 50 years old
American Idol, British, American Idol Judge, Simon Cowell, People Magazine Celebrity 100, Idol series judge…music critic, Critic
Simon Cowell (born 7 October, 1959) is an English artist and repertoire ("A&R") executive for Sony BMG in the United Kingdom, but is known as a...
Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout

male, 53 years old
The Wall Street Journal, from Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Commentary Magazine, Liner notes, City Limits Memories of a Small-Town Boy, The Skeptic A Life of H.L. Mencken…Critic
Terry Teachout (born 1956, Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is a critic, biographer and blogger. He is the drama critic of "The Wall Street Journal", the...
Ezra Loomis Pound

Ezra Loomis Pound

male (Hailey, Idaho, United States)
poet, imagism, Critic, American expatriate in Italy, expatriate, Hamilton College alumni
Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in the small mining town of Hailey, Idaho . He had an average middle-class childhood in Wyncote,...
Nat Hentoff

Nat Hentoff

male, 84 years old
ideological left, Censorship, Left-wing politics, Critic, Political writer, music historian…music critic
Nat Hentoff contributes regularly to Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal . Among other publications in which his work has appeared are The...
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

male, deceased (1900)
philosopher, German, God is dead, atheist, existentialism, morality…Critic
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and...
Graham Henry Greene

Graham Henry Greene

male, deceased (1991) (nice)
journalist, convert to Roman Catholicism, memoirist, Spy fiction writer, declined a British honour, English…Critic
Graham Greene / Graham Greene , who was in the staff of The Times from 1926 to 1940, and served in the Foreign Office during WWII, is the author of...
Janet Maslin

Janet Maslin

female, 61 years old
The New York Times, New York Times, The Times, Boston Phoenix, Critic, American…music critic, film critic
The question (not burning, perhaps--except for the poor dupes who suffered through the charmless Phantom because the Times recommended it) is how...