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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
James Agee
Poet
27-Nov-1909 16-May-1955 A Death in the Family
Walter Allen
Novelist
23-Feb-1911 28-Feb-1995 All in a Lifetime
Kenneth Allsop
Critic
29-Jan-1920 23-May-1973 London Evening News book critic
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Critic
27-Sep-1821 11-May-1881 Journal Intime
Lindsay Anderson
Film Director
17-Apr-1923 30-Aug-1994 If...
Matthew Arnold
Poet
24-Dec-1822 15-Apr-1888 Culture and Anarchy
Brooks Atkinson
Critic
28-Nov-1894 14-Jan-1984 New York Times drama critic
Margaret Atwood
Author
18-Nov-1939   The Handmaid's Tale
Louis Auchincloss
Author
27-Sep-1917 26-Jan-2010 Portrait in Brownstone
Georges Auric
Composer
15-Feb-1899 24-Jul-1983 Theme for Moulin Rouge
Lester Bangs
Critic
14-Dec-1948 30-Apr-1982 Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Roland Barthes
Critic
12-Nov-1915 23-Mar-1980 Structuralist literary critic, S/Z
Nicholas Basbanes
Author
1943   A Gentle Madness
Walter Jackson Bate
Critic
23-May-1918 26-Jul-1999 Samuel Johnson
Charles Baudelaire
Poet
9-Apr-1821 31-Aug-1867 Les Fleurs du Mal
John Bayley
Novelist
25-Mar-1925   Widower's House
Max Beerbohm
Critic
24-Aug-1872 20-May-1956 Caricaturist, Seven Men
Eric Bentley
Critic
14-Sep-1916   The Life of the Drama
Richard Bentley
Critic
27-Jan-1662 14-Jul-1742 Reformed classical scholarship
Arthur Berger
Composer
15-May-1912 7-Oct-2003 Ideas of Order
John Berger
Novelist
5-Nov-1926   British novelist, G
Mr. Blackwell
Critic
29-Aug-1922 19-Oct-2008 Issued an annual "Worst-Dressed List"
Harold Bloom
Critic
11-Jul-1930   Literary critic, Yale professor
Louise Bogan
Poet
11-Aug-1897 4-Feb-1970 The New Yorker poetry critic
Nicolas Boileau
Poet
1-Nov-1636 13-Mar-1711 Satires du Sieur D...
Wayne C. Booth
Critic
22-Feb-1921 10-Oct-2005 The Rhetoric of Fiction
Malcolm Bradbury
Critic
7-Sep-1932 27-Nov-2000 The History Man
Joe Bob Briggs
Critic
27-Jan-1953   B-movie film reviewer
Susie Bright
Columnist
25-Mar-1958   Sexpert, porn critic
Anita Brookner
Novelist
16-Jul-1928   Hotel Du Lac
Cleanth Brooks
Critic
16-Oct-1906 10-May-1994 The Well Wrought Urn
Van Wyck Brooks
Critic
16-Feb-1886 2-May-1963 Finders & Makers
Frank Bruni
Journalist
31-Oct-1964   New York Times food critic
Robert Brustein
Educator
21-Apr-1927   Founder, American Reportory Theatre
Algis Budrys
Author
9-Jan-1931 9-Jun-2008 Rogue Moon
Kenneth Burke
Critic
5-May-1897 19-Nov-1993 Language as Symbolic Action
Frederick Busch
Novelist
1-Aug-1941 23-Feb-2006 Don't Tell Anyone
Judith Butler
Scholar
24-Feb-1956   Gender Trouble
A. S. Byatt
Critic
24-Aug-1936   Possession
Vincent Canby
Critic
27-Jul-1924 15-Sep-2000 Film/Theater Critic, The New York Times
G. K. Chesterton
Author
29-May-1874 14-Jun-1936 The Man Who Was Thursday
Alan Cheuse
Novelist
23-Jan-1940   The Bohemians
Robert Christgau
Critic
18-Apr-1942   Village Voice music critic
Steven Cojocaru
Critic
5-Jan-1965   Entertainment Tonight fashion critic
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet
21-Oct-1772 25-Jul-1834 Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Cyril Connolly
Critic
10-Sep-1903 26-Nov-1974 Enemies of Promise
Judith Crist
Critic
22-May-1922 7-Aug-2012 Ascerbic film critic
Ben Croshaw
Critic
24-May-1983   Zero Punctuation
Stanley Crouch
Columnist
14-Dec-1945   Jazz critic
Chris Cutler
Drummer
4-Jan-1947   Henry Cow
Reginald De Koven
Composer
3-Apr-1859 16-Jan-1920 Oh, Promise Me
John Dennis
Critic
1657 6-Jan-1734 The Usefulness of the Stage
S. S. Van Dine
Novelist
15-Oct-1888 11-Apr-1939 The Canary Murder Case
Dionysius Halicarnassus
Historian
fl. 20 BC fl. 20 BC Roman Antiquities
John Dryden
Poet
19-Aug-1631 1-May-1700 Absalom and Achitophel
Roger Ebert
Critic
18-Jun-1942   Siskel and Ebert
Richard Ellmann
Critic
15-Mar-1918 13-May-1987 James Joyce
William Empson
Critic
27-Sep-1906 15-Apr-1984 Seven Types of Ambiguity
Élie Faure
Historian
4-Apr-1873 31-Oct-1937 History of Art
Leslie A. Fiedler
Critic
8-Mar-1917 29-Jan-2003 Love and Death in the American Novel
Norman Foerster
Critic
14-Apr-1887 1-Aug-1972 New Humanist movement
John Forster
Author
2-Apr-1812 2-Feb-1876 Life of Charles Dickens
Northrop Frye
Author
14-Jul-1912 23-Jan-1991 Fearful Symmetry
Neal Gabler
Pundit
?   Fox News Watch
Edward Garnett
Editor
5-Jan-1868 19-Feb-1937 English critic and editor
John Golding
Critic
10-Sep-1929 9-Apr-2012 Cubism: A History and an Analysis
C. Hartley Grattan
Author
19-Oct-1902 25-Jun-1980 The Southwest Pacific
Graham Greene
Novelist
2-Oct-1904 3-Apr-1991 The Third Man
Ruth Hale
Activist
1886 18-Sep-1933 Maiden name crusader
Elizabeth Hardwick
Critic
27-Jul-1916 2-Dec-2007 Seduction and Betrayal
Geoffrey Hartman
Critic
11-Aug-1929   The Unmediated Vision
William Hazlitt
Essayist
10-Apr-1778 18-Sep-1830 English literary critic, essayist
W. E. Henley
Poet
23-Aug-1849 11-Jul-1903 Invictus
Nat Hentoff
Critic
10-Jun-1925   The Jazz Life
Hermann Hesse
Author
2-Jul-1877 9-Aug-1962 Siddhartha
Granville Hicks
Critic
9-Sep-1901 18-Jun-1982 Marxist critic, The Great Tradition
Duncan Hines
Business
26-Mar-1880 15-Mar-1959 Roadside gourmet
John Hollander
Poet
28-Oct-1929   Powers of Thirteen
A. E. Housman
Poet
26-Mar-1859 30-Apr-1936 A Shropshire Lad
Irving Howe
Critic
11-Jun-1920 5-May-1993 Editor of Dissent
William Dean Howells
Author
1-Mar-1837 11-May-1920 The Rise of Silas Lapham
T. E. Hulme
Poet
16-Sep-1883 28-Sep-1917 Modernist poet and critic
Leigh Hunt
Poet
19-Oct-1784 28-Aug-1859 Story of Rimini
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Novelist
22-Apr-1929 21-Feb-2005 Tres Tristes Tigres
Michiko Kakutani
Critic
9-Jan-1955   Quirky New York Times book critic
Stanley Kauffmann
Critic
24-Apr-1916   Film critic for The New Republic
George S. Kaufman
Playwright
16-Nov-1889 2-Jun-1961 You Can't Take It With You
Alfred Kazin
Critic
5-Jun-1915 5-Jun-1998 On Native Grounds
Hugh Kenner
Critic
7-Jan-1923 24-Nov-2003 The Poetry of Ezra Pound
Frank Kermode
Critic
29-Nov-1919 17-Aug-2010 The Sense of an Ending
Walter Kerr
Critic
8-Jul-1913 9-Oct-1996 New York Times drama critic
Harry Knowles
Critic
11-Dec-1971   Ain't It Cool News
Hilton Kramer
Critic
25-Mar-1928 27-Mar-2012 The New Criterion
Murray Krieger
Critic
27-Nov-1923 5-Aug-2000 The Play and Place of Criticism
Joseph Wood Krutch
Naturalist
25-Nov-1893 22-May-1970 The Modern Temper
Jacques Lacan
Psychiatrist
13-Apr-1901 9-Sep-1981 The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I
Charles Lamb
Author
10-Feb-1775 27-Dec-1834 Essays of Elia
Victor de Laprade
Poet
13-Jan-1812 13-Dec-1883 Les Muses d'État
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Playwright
22-Jan-1729 15-Feb-1781 Laokoon
David Lodge
Novelist
28-Jan-1935   How Far Can You Go?
James Russell Lowell
Author
22-Feb-1819 12-Aug-1891 The Biglow Papers
Otto Ludwig
Playwright
11-Feb-1813 25-Feb-1865 Der Erbförster
Dwight Macdonald
Critic
24-Mar-1906 19-Dec-1982 Against the American Grain
John Albert Macy
Critic
10-Apr-1877 26-Aug-1932 Socialism in America
Leonard Maltin
Critic
18-Dec-1950   Film critic
Burns Mantle
Critic
23-Dec-1873 9-Feb-1948 New York Daily News drama critic
Charles Marriott
Novelist
1869 13-Jul-1957 Art critic, Modern Art
Janet Maslin
Critic
1948   New York Times film critic
Brander Matthews
Critic
21-Feb-1852 31-Mar-1929 The Study of American Literature
F. O. Matthiessen
Critic
19-Feb-1902 1-Apr-1950 American Renaissance
John McWhorter
Linguist
c. 1963   Linguist, social critic
Michael Medved
Critic
Oct-1948   Traditional values pundit, film critic
Louis Menand
Critic
21-Jan-1952   The Metaphysical Club
H. L. Mencken
Critic
12-Sep-1880 29-Jan-1956 The American Language
J. Hillis Miller
Critic
5-Mar-1928   Deconstructionist literary critic
Richard Monckton Milnes
Poet
19-Jun-1809 11-Aug-1885 Poetry for the People
Octave Mirbeau
Novelist
16-Feb-1850 16-Feb-1917 Le Jardin des supplices
Elvis Mitchell
Critic
1958   New York Times film critic
Momus
Critic
11-Feb-1960   Scottish music critic, famous for 15 people
Joe Morgenstern
Critic
3-Oct-1932   Wall Street Journal film critic
John Middleton Murry
Critic
6-Aug-1889 13-Mar-1957 The Story of D. H. Lawrence
George Jean Nathan
Author
14-Feb-1882 8-Apr-1958 American Mercury
Max Nordau
Critic
29-Jul-1849 23-Jan-1923 Zionist and cultural critic, Degeneration
Nikolai Novikov
Critic
27-Apr-1744 31-Jul-1818 Early Russian critic, The Drone
Elder Olson
Critic
9-Mar-1909 25-Jul-1992 Critics and Criticism
Francis Turner Palgrave
Critic
28-Sep-1824 24-Oct-1897 Golden Treasury
Michael Parenti
Critic
1933   Make-Believe Media
Dorothy Parker
Author
22-Aug-1893 7-Jun-1967 Constant Reader known for acerbic quips
Robert M. Parker
Critic
23-Jul-1947   The Wine Advocate
Walter Pater
Critic
4-Aug-1839 30-Jul-1894 Marius the Epicurean
Isabel Paterson
Author
22-Jan-1886 10-Jan-1961 The God of the Machine
Coventry Patmore
Poet
23-Jul-1823 26-Nov-1896 The Unknown Eros
Cesare Pavese
Poet
9-Sep-1908 27-Aug-1950 La luna e i falò
William Lyon Phelps
Critic
2-Jan-1865 21-Aug-1943 Essays on Modern Novelists
Philetas of Cos
Poet
fl 4th. c. BC fl. 4th c. BC Very thin Alexandrian poet, critic
Robert Pinsky
Poet
20-Oct-1940   US Poet Laureate, 1997-2000
Richard Poirier
Critic
9-Sep-1925 15-Aug-2009 Raritan, A Quarterly Review
Quintilian
Critic
35 AD 96 AD Institutio Oratoria
Philip Rahv
Critic
10-Mar-1908 22-Dec-1973 Co-Founder, Partisan Review
Burton Rascoe
Critic
22-Oct-1892 19-Mar-1957 The New York Tribune
Rex Reed
Critic
2-Oct-1938   At the Movies
Ruth Reichl
Critic
16-Jan-1948   Editor-in-Chief, Gourmet magazine
Frank Rich
Columnist
2-Jun-1949   New York magazine
I. A. Richards
Critic
26-Feb-1893 7-Sep-1979 The Meaning of Meaning
Laura Riding
Poet
16-Jan-1901 2-Sep-1991 A Survey of Modernist Poetry
Éric Rohmer
Film Director
4-Apr-1920 11-Jan-2010 Ma Nuit chez Maud
Salman Rushdie
Novelist
19-Jun-1947   The Satanic Verses
John Ruskin
Critic
8-Feb-1819 20-Jan-1900 Greatest Victorian art critic
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Critic
23-Dec-1804 13-Oct-1869 Portraits contemporains
George Saintsbury
Critic
23-Oct-1845 28-Jan-1933 A History of Criticism
Pitts Sanborn
Critic
1878 7-Mar-1941 Music critic for New York Globe
Andrew Sarris
Critic
31-Oct-1928 20-Jun-2012 The American Cinema
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Scholar
8-Sep-1767 12-May-1845 Über dramatisch Kunst und Literatur
Tom Shales
Critic
3-Nov-1948   TV critic
Gene Shalit
Critic
25-Mar-1932   Film critic
Wilfrid Sheed
Author
27-Dec-1930 19-Jan-2011 Office Politics
Elaine Showalter
Critic
21-Jan-1941   Lead alpha Gynocritic
Joel Siegel
Critic
7-Jul-1943 29-Jun-2007 Film critic
John Simon
Critic
12-May-1925   Reviewer for New York magazine
Louis Simpson
Poet
27-Mar-1923   At The End of the Open Road
Gene Siskel
Critic
26-Jan-1946 20-Feb-1999 Siskel and Ebert
Norman Solomon
Critic
1952   Media critic
Stephen Spender
Poet
28-Feb-1909 16-Jul-1995 The Destructive Element
Joel Elias Spingarn
Critic
17-May-1875 26-Jul-1939 Literary critic, NAACP leader
Gayatri Spivak
Scholar
24-Feb-1942   Postcolonialist theorist, Can the Subaltern Speak?
George Steiner
Critic
23-Apr-1929   After Babel
Sir Leslie Stephen
Encyclopaedist
28-Nov-1832 22-Feb-1904 Dictionary of National Biography
Richard Henry Stoddard
Novelist
2-Jul-1825 12-May-1903 Abraham Lincoln, An Horatian Ode
Lytton Strachey
Author
1-Mar-1880 21-Jan-1932 Eminent Victorians
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poet
5-Apr-1837 10-Apr-1909 Masochist Victorian poet
John Addington Symonds
Critic
5-Oct-1840 19-Apr-1893 Renaissance in Italy
Arthur Symons
Poet
28-Feb-1865 22-Jan-1945 English symbolist poet
Hippolyte Taine
Historian
21-Apr-1828 5-Mar-1893 Origines de la France Contemporaine
Alessandro Tassoni
Poet
28-Sep-1565 25-Apr-1635 The Rape of the Bucket
Allen Tate
Poet
19-Nov-1899 9-Feb-1979 Mr. Pope and Other Poems
Mayo Thompson
Musician
?   The Red Crayola
Virgil Thomson
Composer
25-Nov-1896 30-Sep-1989 Four Saints in Three Acts
Ludwig Tieck
Novelist
31-May-1773 28-Apr-1853 Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen
Diana Trilling
Critic
21-Jul-1905 23-Oct-1996 Literary critic, The Nation
Lionel Trilling
Critic
4-Jul-1905 5-Nov-1975 The Liberal Imagination
Kenneth Tynan
Critic
2-Apr-1927 26-Jul-1980 British theatre critic
Mark Van Doren
Poet
13-Jun-1894 10-Dec-1972 The Happy Critic
Helen Vendler
Critic
30-Apr-1933   American poetry critic
Friedrich von Schlegel
Philosopher
10-Mar-1772 12-Jan-1829 Founder of the German Romantic movement
William Weaver
Translator
24-Jul-1923   Translator from the Italian
Raymond Williams
Critic
31-Aug-1921 26-Jan-1988 Culture and Society
Edmund Wilson
Author
8-May-1895 12-Jun-1972 Axel's Castle
Yvor Winters
Poet
17-Oct-1900 25-Jan-1968 Primitivism & Decadence
Alexander Woollcott
Critic
18-Jan-1887 23-Jan-1943 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Stark Young
Critic
11-Oct-1881 6-Jan-1963 So Red the Rose
Nina Zagat
Critic
12-Aug-1942   Zagat Survey
Tim Zagat
Critic
13-Jun-1940   Zagat Survey



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