- Dwight Garner (critic)
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Dwight Garner Born January 8, 1965
Fairmont, West Virginia, United StatesOccupation Writer, journalist Genres Criticism, nonfiction - For other people of the same name, see Dwight Garner (disambiguation).
Dwight Garner (born 1965) is an American journalist, now a literary critic for The New York Times.[1] Prior to that he was senior editor at the New York Times Book Review, where he worked from 1999 to 2009. He was also the founding books editor of Salon.com,[2] where he worked from 1995 to 1998.
His essays and journalism have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the TLS, the Oxford American, Slate, the Village Voice, the Boston Phoenix, The Nation,[2] and elsewhere. He has served on the board of the National Book Critic’s Circle. In a January 2011 column for Slate, the journalist Timothy Noah called Garner a "highly gifted critic" who had reinvigorated the New York Times's literary coverage, and likened him to Anatole Broyard and John Leonard.[3]
He is the author of Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements, and he is at work on a biography of James Agee.
Dwight Garner was born in West Virginia[4] and graduated from Middlebury College.[5] He lives in Frenchtown, New Jersey. He is married to the cookbook writer Cree LeFavour.[6]
External links
- New York Times archive of reviews
- Knight News interview, 2007
- Author bio page from HarperCollins publisher
- Slate.com article about Garner
References
- ^ [1] New York Times archive of the work of Dwight Garner
- ^ a b [2] Author bio at HarperCollins
- ^ [3] Noah, Timothy. "I Like Dwight." Slate, January 7, 2011.
- ^ [4] Garner, Dwight. "The Greenbrier Resort Hopes to Preserve Its Past." New York Times, August 12, 2010
- ^ [5] Interview with Burlington, Vermont newspaper "Seven Days"
- ^ [6] "20 More Cookbooks." New York Times, June 1, 2008.
Categories:- American literary critics
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Critics employed by The New York Times
- Middlebury College alumni
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