James Wood (critic)

James Wood
Born (1965-11-01) 1 November 1965 (age 58)
Durham, County Durham, England
OccupationCritic
EducationChorister School, Durham
Alma materEton College
Jesus College, Cambridge
Notable awardsYoung Journalist of the Year
Berlin Prize Fellowship
SpouseClaire Messud

James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965)[1] is an English[a] literary critic, essayist and novelist.

Wood was The Guardian's chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995. He was a senior editor at The New Republic between 1995 and 2007. As of 2014, he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University[2] and a staff writer at The New Yorker.

  1. ^ "WOOD, James Douglas Graham". Who's Who. A & C Black; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2011. 2012. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  2. ^ "Department of English: James Wood". harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2014.

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