- Mark Brown, Theatre Critic
- Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. - Simon Cowell
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 judge on television programs such as "Pop Idol", "The X Factor", "American Idol" and "Britain's Got Talent". He is notorious for his unsparingly blunt and often controversial criticism of the contestants. He is known for combining activities in the television and music industries, … - Terry Teachout
Terry Teachout (born 1956, Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is a critic, biographer and blogger. He is the drama critic of "The Wall Street Journal", the music critic of "Commentary", and the author of "Sightings," a column about the arts in America that appears biweekly in the Saturday "Wall Street Journal". He blogs at About Last Night along with Chicago-based critic Laura Demanski (who writes under the name "Our Girl in Chicago"), … - Ezra Loomis Pound
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, Philadelphia , where his father held the position of assistant assayer for the United States Mint . Pound left high school, and attended the University of Pennsylvania , where he befriended another notable poet of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams , who was studying medicine at the time. - Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff contributes regularly to Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal . Among other publications in which his work has appeared are The New York Times , The New Republic , Commonwealth , The Atlantic , and The New Yorker , where he was a staff writer for more than 25 years. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. Nietzsche began his career as a philologist before turning to philosophy. - Graham Henry Greene
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 many important novels, several of which were made into movies. Critics often refer to a turning point in his writing when he converted to Catholicism, and often wonder as to why he continues to elude the Nobel Committee. His first work, Babbling April , appeared in 1925. - Janet Maslin
The question (not burning, perhaps--except for the poor dupes who suffered through the charmless Phantom because the Times recommended it) is how Maslin comes by this generosity. The paranoid explanation is that the paper's growing dependence on movie ads compels her, in some oblique and unconscious way, to be an industry booster. Or it could be that Maslin is a little too well connected for a film critic, as some detractors have charged, and afraid to hurt her friends' feelings. - James Wood
James Wood (born 1965 in Durham, United Kingdom) is a literary critic and novelist. - David Ehrenstein
David Ehrenstein (born February 18, 1947, in New York City) is an American critic who focuses primarily on issues of homosexuality in cinema. He attended the High School of Music and Art (now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts) and then Pace College (now Pace University). He now lives in Los Angeles. His writing career started in 1965 with an interview with Andy Warhol which was published in "Film Culture" magazine in 1966. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced:), was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy. - David Was
David Was is, with his stage-brother Don Was, the founder of the influential 1980s pop group, Was (Not Was). Reviewed by "The New York Times" in 1980 as "the funkier art-funk band" (comparing them to Talking Heads), Was (Not Was) used members of Funkadelic; alongside jazz legends like trumpeter Marcus Belgrave; and singers Mel Tormé,and Ozzy Osbourne. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Was fled his native Detroit for California, … - Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a poet, critic, translator and man of wisdom. He was influenced by authors such as Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Schopenhauer and G. K. Chesterton. - Robert Hughes
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO, (born July 28, 1938), who is usually known as Robert Hughes, is an art critic, writer and television documentary maker. Hughes has lived in New York for over 30 years. - John Simon
John Simon (born Ivan Simon on May 12, 1925) is a Serbian-American author and literary, theater, and film critic. Born in Subotica, Serbia, he was educated at Harvard (B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.), and has been a regular contributor to a number of magazines, including "The New Leader", "The New Criterion", and "National Review". - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834) (pronounced) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan", as well as his major prose work "Biographia Literaria". - Greg Sandow
Greg Sandow is an American music critic and composer. For many years, he was best known as a critic, both of classical music and pop. But more recently he moved journalism to a back burner, revived a composing career that he abandoned in the 1980s, and began writing and speaking about the future of classical music, a subject that has become his specialty. As a critic, Sandow wrote for "The Village Voice" in the 1980s, … - Ben Brantley
Ben Brantley (born October 26, 1954) is the chief theatre critic of the "New York Times". Born Benjamin D. Brantley in Durham, North Carolina, Brantley received a B.A. degree in English from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Brantley began his journalism career as a summer intern at the "Winston-Salem Sentinel" in 1976 and an editorial assistant at "The Village Voice" in 1975. - Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (April 2, 1927 - July 26, 1980), was an influential and often controversial British theatre critic and writer. - Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867) was an influential nineteenth century French poet. He was also a critic and translator. - Philip Hensher
Philip Michael Hensher (born February 20 1965) is an English novelist, critic and journalist. Hensher was born in South London, although spent the majority of his childhood and adolescence in Sheffield, attending Tapton Comprehensive School. He has degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge, where he was awarded a PhD for work on 18th century painting and satire. Early in his career he worked as a clerk in the House of Commons. He has published a number of successful novels, … - Michael Billington
Michael Billington (born on 16 November, 1938 in Leamington Spa) is a British theatre critic and broadcaster. Billington was educated at Warwick School and St Catherine's College, Oxford, and began working as a journalist in Liverpool. He worked as Public Liaison Officer and Director for Lincoln Theatre Company from 1962 to 1964. He began reviewing films, plays and television programs for "The Times" in 1965. - Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL, (9 August 1922 - 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as a university librarian and was offered the Poet Laureateship following the death of John Betjeman, but declined the post. Larkin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. In 2003 Larkin was chosen as the "nation's best-loved poet" in a survey by the Poetry Book Society. - Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993) was a British novelist, critic and composer. He was also active as a librettist, poet, pianist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist and educationalist. Born in Harpurhey, Manchester in northwest England, he lived and worked variously in Southeast Asia, the United States and Mediterranean Europe. - Tom O'Neil
Tom O'Neil is a showbiz journalist and television critic who often appears as a pundit on TV shows featuring pop culture content. He has also worked as a producer for the TV Land network, editorial director of magazine development for the Hearst Corporation, freelance writer for "Variety", "New York Times", … - James Agee
James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 - May 16, 1955) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, "A Death in the Family" (1957), won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. - Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch (born December 14, 1945, Los Angeles) is an American music critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist perhaps best known for his jazz criticism and his novel "Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?" - Charles Henry
Charles Henry (1859- ?) was a French librarian and editor. He was born at Bollwiller, Haut-Rhin, and was educated in Paris, where in 1881 he became assiatant and afterward librarian in the Sorbonne. As a specialist in the history of mathematics, he was sent to Italy to seek some manuscripts of that nature which the government wished to publish. He edited several works upon kindred subjects, as well as memoirs, letters, and other volumes, … - Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947; the surname is pronounced // i.e. with the first syllable sounding like "crow" in English) was a British occultist, writer and mystic. He is perhaps best known today for his occult writings, especially "The Book of the Law", the central sacred text of Thelema. Crowley was also an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, … - John Doyle
John Doyle (born 1957) is one of the two television critics (along with Andrew Ryan) with Canada's "The Globe and Mail" newspaper. Doyle also covers major football events for the paper. He was born in Nenagh, County Tipperary in Ireland. As a teenager he moved to Dublin before immigrating to Canada in the 1980s. A writer he has written a number of books about his early life in deeply conservative rural Ireland. - Philip French
Philip French (born 1933) is a British film critic and former radio producer. French, who was raised in Liverpool and educated at Oxford University, has been film critic of "The Observer" since 1978. Before that, he was deputy film critic to David Robinson at "The Times" for some years. He has also written for "Sight and Sound". - Raymond Williams
Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 - 26 January 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature reflected his Marxist outlook. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. Some 750,000 copies of his books have sold in UK editions alone ("Politics and Letters", 1979) and there are many translations of his various work. - John Harris
John Harris (born 1969) is a British journalist, writer, and critic. Harris was raised in Cheshire by two university lecturers and became fixated by pop music at an early age. After three years at Queen's College, Oxford, he began his professional writing career with "Melody Maker" in 1991, but he didn't stay long and has since expressed his distaste for its more intellectual writing style. - Ian Hamilton
Robert Ian Hamilton (24 March 1938 - 27 December 2001) was a British literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher. He was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk. His parents were Scottish and had moved to Norfolk in 1936. His father died when Ian was 13. The family moved to Darlington in 1951 and there at age 17 in sixth form at school Hamilton produced two issues of his own magazine, which was called "The Scorpion". - Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 - June 19, 1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist. The most important gender theorist of her time, Fuller was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (The Margaret Fuller House, in which she was born, is still standing today and is now occupied by an active community outreach program.) Her father, Timothy Fuller, a lawyer and prominent politician, … - James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist. - John McCallum
John McCallum, PC, MP, MA, Ph.D (born April 9, 1950) is a Canadian politician, economist and university professor. Following the 2006 Federal Election, he became the Liberal Finance Critic in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet. Before the election, he was the thirty-seventh Minister of National Revenue and was also the Minister responsible for Canada Post Corporation, the Royal Canadian Mint, from 2004 to 2006 and acting Minister of Natural Resources from 2005 to 2006. - Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier (b June 14, 1952) is an American writer, critic, and magazine editor. Since 1983 he has been the literary editor of "The New Republic". Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Columbia University, Oxford University, and Harvard University, and was a member of Harvard's Society of Fellows from 1979-1982. Wieseltier has published several fictional and non-fictional books. "Kaddish", a National Book Award finalist in 2000, …
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