Richard Eder
Richard Eder | |
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Born | Richard Gray Eder August 16, 1932[1] Washington, D.C., United States[1] |
Died | November 21, 2014 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | (aged 82)
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Occupation(s) | Film critic, drama critic |
Richard Gray Eder (August 16, 1932 – November 21, 2014)[1] was an American critic. For 20 years, he was variously a foreign correspondent, a film reviewer and the drama critic for The New York Times.[2] Subsequently he was book critic for the Los Angeles Times, winning a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism[3] and the National Book Critics Circle annual citation for an entry consisting of reviews of John Updike's Roger's Version, Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, and Robert Stone's Children of the Light.[4]
In the last years of his life, he wrote book reviews for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. On November 21, 2014, Eder died of pneumonia as a result of post-polio syndrome in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 82.[5] He was a great-grandson of James Martin Eder.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c Weber, Bruce (November 21, 2014). "Richard Eder, Arts Critic and Foreign Correspondent, Dies at 82". The New York Times.
- ^ Profile, nytimes.com; accessed November 23, 2014.
- ^ Pulitzer Prize for Criticism won by Eder, pqarchiver.com; accessed November 23, 2014.
- ^ "The winner's review" (PDF). The National Book Cricis Circle Journal. 13 (2): 5–6. 1 April 1987.
- ^ Notice of death of Richard Eder, latimes.com; November 23, 2014; accessed November 23, 2014.
External links
- Richard Eder at IMDb
- 1932 births
- 2014 deaths
- Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winners
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- American newspaper reporters and correspondents
- American literary critics
- Jewish American writers
- The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winners
- Deaths from pneumonia
- Infectious disease deaths in Massachusetts
- Writers from Washington, D.C.
- Harvard University alumni