Critic
| Name | Nationality | Date of Birth | Date of Death |
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| Ada Louise Huxtable |
American |
March 14, 1921 |
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| Aleister Crowley |
English |
October 12, 1875 |
December 1, 1947 |
| Alexander Woollcott |
American |
January 19, 1887 |
January 23, 1942 |
| Alfred Kazin |
American |
June 5, 1915 |
1998 |
| Alphonse Karr |
French |
November 24, 1808 |
September 29, 1890 |
| Anatole Broyard |
American |
July 19, 1920 |
October 11, 1990 |
| Andre Bazin |
French |
April 18, 1918 |
November 11, 1958 |
| Andrea Dworkin |
American |
September 26, 1946 |
April 9, 2005 |
| Arthur C. Danto |
American |
1924 |
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| Arthur Sheekman |
American |
February 5, 1901 |
January 12, 1978 |
| Barbara Johnson |
American |
1947 |
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| Bell Hooks |
American |
September 25, 1952 |
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| Brendan Gill |
American |
October 4, 1914 |
December 27, 1997 |
| Brooks Atkinson |
American |
November 28, 1894 |
January 14, 1984 |
| Carl Clinton Van Doren |
American |
September 10, 1885 |
July 18, 1950 |
| Charles Lamb |
English |
February 10, 1775 |
July 27, 1834 |
| Chris Morris |
British |
September 5, 1965 |
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| Christopher Ricks |
British |
1933 |
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| Chuck Klosterman |
American |
July 5, 1972 |
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| Clive Bell |
English |
September 16, 1881 |
September 18, 1964 |
| Dominique Bouhours |
French |
1628 |
May 27, 1702 |
| E. T. A. Hoffmann |
|
January 24, 1776 |
June 25, 1822 |
| Edmund Wilson |
American |
May 8, 1895 |
June 12, 1972 |
| Edward Dowden |
Irish |
May 3, 1843 |
April 4, 1913 |
| Elizabeth Hardwick |
American |
July 27, 1916 |
December 2, 2007 |
| Eric Bentley |
English |
September 14, 1916 |
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| Ernest Hello |
French |
1828 |
1885 |
| Ernest Newman |
English |
November 30, 1868 |
July 7, 1959 |
| F. L. Lucas |
English |
1894 |
1967 |
| Fredric Jameson |
American |
April 14, 1934 |
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| Gene Shalit |
American |
March 25, 1932 |
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| Gene Siskel |
American |
January 26, 1946 |
February 20, 1999 |
| Georg Brandes |
Danish |
February 4, 1842 |
February 19, 1927 |
| George Edward Woodberry |
American |
1855 |
1930 |
| George Steiner |
American |
April 23, 1929 |
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| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
German |
January 22, 1729 |
February 15, 1781 |
| Harold Bloom |
American |
July 11, 1930 |
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| Harry Knowles |
American |
December 11, 1971 |
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| Henry Louis Gates |
American |
September 16, 1950 |
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| Henry Seidel Canby |
American |
September 6, 1878 |
April 5, 1961 |
| Hilton Kramer |
American |
1928 |
|
| Hippolyte Taine |
French |
April 21, 1828 |
March 5, 1893 |
| Irving Babbitt |
American |
August 2, 1865 |
July 15, 1933 |
| Isaac Goldberg |
American |
1887 |
1938 |
| James Wolcott |
American |
1952 |
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| Jay Cocks |
American |
|
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| Joe Bob Briggs |
American |
January 27, 1953 |
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| Joel Siegel |
American |
July 7, 1943 |
June 29, 2007 |
| John Churton Collins |
English |
March 26, 1848 |
September 25, 1908 |
| John Dennis |
English |
1657 |
1734 |
| John Lahr |
American |
July 12, 1941 |
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| John Mason Brown |
American |
July 3, 1900 |
1969 |
| John Simon |
|
May 12, 1925 |
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| John T. Flynn |
American |
1882 |
1964 |
| Kenneth Tynan |
English |
April 2, 1927 |
July 26, 1980 |
| Leon Edel |
American |
September 9, 1907 |
September 5, 1997 |
| Leonard Maltin |
American |
December 18, 1950 |
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| Leslie Fiedler |
American |
March 8, 1917 |
January 29, 2003 |
| Lester Bangs |
American |
December 14, 1948 |
April 30, 1982 |
| Lionel Trilling |
American |
July 4, 1905 |
November 5, 1975 |
| Logan Pearsall Smith |
American |
October 18, 1865 |
March 2, 1946 |
| Louis Kronenberger |
American |
December 9, 1904 |
April 30, 1980 |
| Ludwig Quidde |
German |
March 23, 1858 |
March 4, 1941 |
| Lytton Strachey |
English |
March 1, 1880 |
January 21, 1932 |
| M. H. Abrams |
|
July 23, 1912 |
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| Malcolm Cowley |
American |
August 24, 1898 |
March 27, 1989 |
| Margaret Fuller |
American |
May 23, 1810 |
June 19, 1850 |
| Max Nordau |
Hungarian |
July 29, 1849 |
January 23, 1923 |
| Mel Gussow |
American |
December 19, 1933 |
April 29, 2005 |
| Northrop Frye |
Canadian |
July 14, 1912 |
January 23, 1991 |
| Pamela Hansford Johnson |
English |
May 29, 1912 |
June 18, 1981 |
| Paul de Man |
Belgian |
December 6, 1919 |
December 21, 1983 |
| Paul Elmer More |
American |
December 12, 1864 |
March 9, 1937 |
| Paul Goldberger |
American |
1950 |
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| Paul Weyrich |
American |
October 7, 1942 |
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| Pauline Kael |
American |
June 19, 1919 |
September 3, 2001 |
| Rex Reed |
American |
October 2, 1938 |
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| Richard H. Stoddard |
American |
July 2, 1825 |
May 12, 1903 |
| Richard Roeper |
American |
August 1, 1960 |
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| Robert Hughes |
Australian |
July 28, 1938 |
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| Robert M. Parker, Jr. |
American |
July 23, 1947 |
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| Robert McChesney |
American |
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| Roger Ebert |
American |
June 18, 1942 |
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| Roland Barthes |
French |
November 12, 1915 |
March 25, 1980 |
| Russell Lynes |
American |
December 2, 1910 |
September 14, 1991 |
| Serge Daney |
French |
1944 |
1992 |
| Stanley Crouch |
American |
December 14, 1945 |
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| Stephen Bayley |
British |
October 13, 1951 |
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| Stephen Greenblatt |
American |
November 7, 1943 |
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| Steven Cojocaru |
Canadian |
January 5, 1965 |
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| Terry Eagleton |
English |
February 22, 1943 |
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| Thomas Gold Appleton |
American |
March 31, 1812 |
April 17, 1884 |
| Timothy White |
American |
January 25, 1952 |
June 27, 2002 |
| Tony Parsons |
English |
1953 |
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| Van Wyck Brooks |
American |
February 16, 1886 |
May 2, 1963 |
| Vincent Canby |
American |
July 27, 1924 |
October 15, 2000 |
| Vissarion Belinsky |
Russian |
1811 |
1848 |
| Walter Benjamin |
German |
July 15, 1892 |
September 27, 1940 |
| Walter Kerr |
American |
July 8, 1913 |
October 9, 1996 |
| Walter Pater |
English |
August 4, 1839 |
July 30, 1894 |
| William Hazlitt |
English |
April 10, 1778 |
September 18, 1830 |
| William Warburton |
English |
December 24, 1698 |
June 7, 1779 |