- Sarah Kaufman (critic)
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Sarah Kaufman (born 1963)[1] is the dance critic for the Washington Post. She was the recipient of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Kaufman was born in Austin, Texas and was raised in Washington DC.[1] She earned a BA in English from the University of Maryland, where she studied under poet laureate Reed Whittemore.[1] She graduated in 1988 with a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.[1][2]
Kaufman studied dance until she gave it up in graduate school.[2] She broke into journalism when she complained to the Washington City Paper that they lacked dance reviews and then began writing reviews for that publication.[3] In the 1990s, Kaufman and her husband moved to Munich, Germany, where she worked as a translator and author of freelance English-language cultural and journalism pieces.[1]
Upon their return to the US, Kaufman began freelancing for the Post. When Post dance critic and Pulitzer-winner Alan M. Kriegsman, whom Kaufman calls "my hero, friend and mentor", retired in 1996, Kaufman took over as dance critic.[4] While writing for the Post, she broke the story that many of the works of Martha Graham were in the public domain.[1] She also won a Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for Arts and Entertainment Reporting for her report on the decreasing number of ballet offerings at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Biography: Sarah Kaufman". The Pulitzer Prizes. http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/2010-Criticism. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
- ^ a b Lavery, Sean (November 16, 2010). "Alumna Sarah Kaufman discusses dancing into journalism". Daily Northwestern. http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/alumna-sarah-kaufman-discusses-dancing-into-journalism-1.2407187. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
- ^ Kurtz, Howard (April 13, 2010). "The Post lands four Pulitzers". Washington Post: pp. A1.
- ^ Kaufman, Sarah (April 14, 2010). "2010 Pulitzer Prize: Sarah Kaufman on winning criticism, role of arts coverage". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2010/04/13/DI2010041303523.html. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
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