Richard Eder
Richard Eder | |
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| Born | Richard Gray Eder August 16, 1932 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | November 21, 2014(2014年11月21日) (aged 82) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Film critic, drama critic |
Richard Gray Eder (August 16, 1932 – November 21, 2014)[1] was an American film reviewer and a drama critic.
Life and career
[edit ]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 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
[edit ]- ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 28, 2010.
- ^ Notice of death of Richard Eder, latimes.com; November 23, 2014; accessed November 23, 2014.
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