Richard Eder
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]
Richard Eder | |
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| Born | Richard Gray Eder August 16, 1932[1] Washington, D.C., United States[1] |
| Died | November 21, 2014 (aged 82) Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Film critic, drama critic |
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.
References
- Weber, Bruce (November 21, 2014). "Richard Eder, Arts Critic and Foreign Correspondent, Dies at 82". The New York Times.
- "Eder Named Times Drama Critic", nytimes.com, March 12, 1977. 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.
