Richard Eder
| Richard Eder | |
|---|---|
| Born | Richard Gray Eder August 16, 1932[1] Washington, D.C., United States[1] |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Film critic, drama critic |
Richard Gray Eder (16 August 1932 – 21 November 2014)[1] was an American critic.
Life and career
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
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- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Notice of death of Richard Eder, latimes.com; November 23, 2014; accessed November 23, 2014.
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