Richard Eder

Richard Eder
Born
Richard Gray Eder

August 16, 1932
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedNovember 21, 2014(2014-11-21) (aged 82)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationHarvard 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

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

  1. ^ Weber, Bruce (November 21, 2014). "Richard Eder, Arts Critic and Foreign Correspondent, Dies at 82". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Eder Named Times Drama Critic", nytimes.com, March 12, 1977. Accessed November 23, 2014.
  3. ^ Pulitzer Prize for Criticism won by Eder, pqarchiver.com; accessed November 23, 2014.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ Notice of death of Richard Eder, latimes.com; November 23, 2014; accessed November 23, 2014.