| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| James Agee |
Poet |
27-Nov-1909 |
16-May-1955 |
A Death in the Family |
| Walter Allen |
Novelist |
23-Feb-1911 |
28-Feb-1995 |
All in a Lifetime |
| Kenneth Allsop |
Critic |
29-Jan-1920 |
23-May-1973 |
London Evening News book critic |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel |
Critic |
27-Sep-1821 |
11-May-1881 |
Journal Intime |
| Lindsay Anderson |
Film Director |
17-Apr-1923 |
30-Aug-1994 |
If... |
| Matthew Arnold |
Poet |
24-Dec-1822 |
15-Apr-1888 |
Culture and Anarchy |
| Brooks Atkinson |
Critic |
28-Nov-1894 |
14-Jan-1984 |
New York Times drama critic |
| Margaret Atwood |
Author |
18-Nov-1939 |
|
The Handmaid's Tale |
| Louis Auchincloss |
Author |
27-Sep-1917 |
26-Jan-2010 |
Portrait in Brownstone |
| Georges Auric |
Composer |
15-Feb-1899 |
24-Jul-1983 |
Theme for Moulin Rouge |
| Lester Bangs |
Critic |
14-Dec-1948 |
30-Apr-1982 |
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung |
| Roland Barthes |
Critic |
12-Nov-1915 |
23-Mar-1980 |
Structuralist literary critic, S/Z |
| Nicholas Basbanes |
Author |
1943 |
|
A Gentle Madness |
| Walter Jackson Bate |
Critic |
23-May-1918 |
26-Jul-1999 |
Samuel Johnson |
| Charles Baudelaire |
Poet |
9-Apr-1821 |
31-Aug-1867 |
Les Fleurs du Mal |
| John Bayley |
Novelist |
25-Mar-1925 |
|
Widower's House |
| Max Beerbohm |
Critic |
24-Aug-1872 |
20-May-1956 |
Caricaturist, Seven Men |
| Eric Bentley |
Critic |
14-Sep-1916 |
|
The Life of the Drama |
| Richard Bentley |
Critic |
27-Jan-1662 |
14-Jul-1742 |
Reformed classical scholarship |
| Arthur Berger |
Composer |
15-May-1912 |
7-Oct-2003 |
Ideas of Order |
| John Berger |
Novelist |
5-Nov-1926 |
|
British novelist, G |
| Mr. Blackwell |
Critic |
29-Aug-1922 |
19-Oct-2008 |
Issued an annual "Worst-Dressed List" |
| Harold Bloom |
Critic |
11-Jul-1930 |
|
Literary critic, Yale professor |
| Louise Bogan |
Poet |
11-Aug-1897 |
4-Feb-1970 |
The New Yorker poetry critic |
| Nicolas Boileau |
Poet |
1-Nov-1636 |
13-Mar-1711 |
Satires du Sieur D... |
| Wayne C. Booth |
Critic |
22-Feb-1921 |
10-Oct-2005 |
The Rhetoric of Fiction |
| Malcolm Bradbury |
Critic |
7-Sep-1932 |
27-Nov-2000 |
The History Man |
| Joe Bob Briggs |
Critic |
27-Jan-1953 |
|
B-movie film reviewer |
| Susie Bright |
Columnist |
25-Mar-1958 |
|
Sexpert, porn critic |
| Anita Brookner |
Novelist |
16-Jul-1928 |
|
Hotel Du Lac |
| Cleanth Brooks |
Critic |
16-Oct-1906 |
10-May-1994 |
The Well Wrought Urn |
| Van Wyck Brooks |
Critic |
16-Feb-1886 |
2-May-1963 |
Finders & Makers |
| Frank Bruni |
Journalist |
31-Oct-1964 |
|
New York Times food critic |
| Robert Brustein |
Educator |
21-Apr-1927 |
|
Founder, American Reportory Theatre |
| Algis Budrys |
Author |
9-Jan-1931 |
9-Jun-2008 |
Rogue Moon |
| Kenneth Burke |
Critic |
5-May-1897 |
19-Nov-1993 |
Language as Symbolic Action |
| Frederick Busch |
Novelist |
1-Aug-1941 |
23-Feb-2006 |
Don't Tell Anyone |
| Judith Butler |
Scholar |
24-Feb-1956 |
|
Gender Trouble |
| A. S. Byatt |
Critic |
24-Aug-1936 |
|
Possession |
| Vincent Canby |
Critic |
27-Jul-1924 |
15-Sep-2000 |
Film/Theater Critic, The New York Times |
| G. K. Chesterton |
Author |
29-May-1874 |
14-Jun-1936 |
The Man Who Was Thursday |
| Alan Cheuse |
Novelist |
23-Jan-1940 |
|
The Bohemians |
| Robert Christgau |
Critic |
18-Apr-1942 |
|
Village Voice music critic |
| Steven Cojocaru |
Critic |
5-Jan-1965 |
|
Entertainment Tonight fashion critic |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Poet |
21-Oct-1772 |
25-Jul-1834 |
Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Cyril Connolly |
Critic |
10-Sep-1903 |
26-Nov-1974 |
Enemies of Promise |
| Judith Crist |
Critic |
22-May-1922 |
7-Aug-2012 |
Ascerbic film critic |
| Ben Croshaw |
Critic |
24-May-1983 |
|
Zero Punctuation |
| Stanley Crouch |
Columnist |
14-Dec-1945 |
|
Jazz critic |
| Chris Cutler |
Drummer |
4-Jan-1947 |
|
Henry Cow |
| Reginald De Koven |
Composer |
3-Apr-1859 |
16-Jan-1920 |
Oh, Promise Me |
| John Dennis |
Critic |
1657 |
6-Jan-1734 |
The Usefulness of the Stage |
| S. S. Van Dine |
Novelist |
15-Oct-1888 |
11-Apr-1939 |
The Canary Murder Case |
| Dionysius Halicarnassus |
Historian |
fl. 20 BC |
fl. 20 BC |
Roman Antiquities |
| John Dryden |
Poet |
19-Aug-1631 |
1-May-1700 |
Absalom and Achitophel |
| Roger Ebert |
Critic |
18-Jun-1942 |
|
Siskel and Ebert |
| Richard Ellmann |
Critic |
15-Mar-1918 |
13-May-1987 |
James Joyce |
| William Empson |
Critic |
27-Sep-1906 |
15-Apr-1984 |
Seven Types of Ambiguity |
| Élie Faure |
Historian |
4-Apr-1873 |
31-Oct-1937 |
History of Art |
| Leslie A. Fiedler |
Critic |
8-Mar-1917 |
29-Jan-2003 |
Love and Death in the American Novel |
| Norman Foerster |
Critic |
14-Apr-1887 |
1-Aug-1972 |
New Humanist movement |
| John Forster |
Author |
2-Apr-1812 |
2-Feb-1876 |
Life of Charles Dickens |
| Northrop Frye |
Author |
14-Jul-1912 |
23-Jan-1991 |
Fearful Symmetry |
| Neal Gabler |
Pundit |
? |
|
Fox News Watch |
| Edward Garnett |
Editor |
5-Jan-1868 |
19-Feb-1937 |
English critic and editor |
| John Golding |
Critic |
10-Sep-1929 |
9-Apr-2012 |
Cubism: A History and an Analysis |
| C. Hartley Grattan |
Author |
19-Oct-1902 |
25-Jun-1980 |
The Southwest Pacific |
| Graham Greene |
Novelist |
2-Oct-1904 |
3-Apr-1991 |
The Third Man |
| Ruth Hale |
Activist |
1886 |
18-Sep-1933 |
Maiden name crusader |
| Elizabeth Hardwick |
Critic |
27-Jul-1916 |
2-Dec-2007 |
Seduction and Betrayal |
| Geoffrey Hartman |
Critic |
11-Aug-1929 |
|
The Unmediated Vision |
| William Hazlitt |
Essayist |
10-Apr-1778 |
18-Sep-1830 |
English literary critic, essayist |
| W. E. Henley |
Poet |
23-Aug-1849 |
11-Jul-1903 |
Invictus |
| Nat Hentoff |
Critic |
10-Jun-1925 |
|
The Jazz Life |
| Hermann Hesse |
Author |
2-Jul-1877 |
9-Aug-1962 |
Siddhartha |
| Granville Hicks |
Critic |
9-Sep-1901 |
18-Jun-1982 |
Marxist critic, The Great Tradition |
| Duncan Hines |
Business |
26-Mar-1880 |
15-Mar-1959 |
Roadside gourmet |
| John Hollander |
Poet |
28-Oct-1929 |
|
Powers of Thirteen |
| A. E. Housman |
Poet |
26-Mar-1859 |
30-Apr-1936 |
A Shropshire Lad |
| Irving Howe |
Critic |
11-Jun-1920 |
5-May-1993 |
Editor of Dissent |
| William Dean Howells |
Author |
1-Mar-1837 |
11-May-1920 |
The Rise of Silas Lapham |
| T. E. Hulme |
Poet |
16-Sep-1883 |
28-Sep-1917 |
Modernist poet and critic |
| Leigh Hunt |
Poet |
19-Oct-1784 |
28-Aug-1859 |
Story of Rimini |
| Guillermo Cabrera Infante |
Novelist |
22-Apr-1929 |
21-Feb-2005 |
Tres Tristes Tigres |
| Michiko Kakutani |
Critic |
9-Jan-1955 |
|
Quirky New York Times book critic |
| Stanley Kauffmann |
Critic |
24-Apr-1916 |
|
Film critic for The New Republic |
| George S. Kaufman |
Playwright |
16-Nov-1889 |
2-Jun-1961 |
You Can't Take It With You |
| Alfred Kazin |
Critic |
5-Jun-1915 |
5-Jun-1998 |
On Native Grounds |
| Hugh Kenner |
Critic |
7-Jan-1923 |
24-Nov-2003 |
The Poetry of Ezra Pound |
| Frank Kermode |
Critic |
29-Nov-1919 |
17-Aug-2010 |
The Sense of an Ending |
| Walter Kerr |
Critic |
8-Jul-1913 |
9-Oct-1996 |
New York Times drama critic |
| Harry Knowles |
Critic |
11-Dec-1971 |
|
Ain't It Cool News |
| Hilton Kramer |
Critic |
25-Mar-1928 |
27-Mar-2012 |
The New Criterion |
| Murray Krieger |
Critic |
27-Nov-1923 |
5-Aug-2000 |
The Play and Place of Criticism |
| Joseph Wood Krutch |
Naturalist |
25-Nov-1893 |
22-May-1970 |
The Modern Temper |
| Jacques Lacan |
Psychiatrist |
13-Apr-1901 |
9-Sep-1981 |
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I |
| Charles Lamb |
Author |
10-Feb-1775 |
27-Dec-1834 |
Essays of Elia |
| Victor de Laprade |
Poet |
13-Jan-1812 |
13-Dec-1883 |
Les Muses d'État |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
Playwright |
22-Jan-1729 |
15-Feb-1781 |
Laokoon |
| David Lodge |
Novelist |
28-Jan-1935 |
|
How Far Can You Go? |
| James Russell Lowell |
Author |
22-Feb-1819 |
12-Aug-1891 |
The Biglow Papers |
| Otto Ludwig |
Playwright |
11-Feb-1813 |
25-Feb-1865 |
Der Erbförster |
| Dwight Macdonald |
Critic |
24-Mar-1906 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Against the American Grain |
| John Albert Macy |
Critic |
10-Apr-1877 |
26-Aug-1932 |
Socialism in America |
| Leonard Maltin |
Critic |
18-Dec-1950 |
|
Film critic |
| Burns Mantle |
Critic |
23-Dec-1873 |
9-Feb-1948 |
New York Daily News drama critic |
| Charles Marriott |
Novelist |
1869 |
13-Jul-1957 |
Art critic, Modern Art |
| Janet Maslin |
Critic |
1948 |
|
New York Times film critic |
| Brander Matthews |
Critic |
21-Feb-1852 |
31-Mar-1929 |
The Study of American Literature |
| F. O. Matthiessen |
Critic |
19-Feb-1902 |
1-Apr-1950 |
American Renaissance |
| John McWhorter |
Linguist |
c. 1963 |
|
Linguist, social critic |
| Michael Medved |
Critic |
Oct-1948 |
|
Traditional values pundit, film critic |
| Louis Menand |
Critic |
21-Jan-1952 |
|
The Metaphysical Club |
| H. L. Mencken |
Critic |
12-Sep-1880 |
29-Jan-1956 |
The American Language |
| J. Hillis Miller |
Critic |
5-Mar-1928 |
|
Deconstructionist literary critic |
| Richard Monckton Milnes |
Poet |
19-Jun-1809 |
11-Aug-1885 |
Poetry for the People |
| Octave Mirbeau |
Novelist |
16-Feb-1850 |
16-Feb-1917 |
Le Jardin des supplices |
| Elvis Mitchell |
Critic |
1958 |
|
New York Times film critic |
| Momus |
Critic |
11-Feb-1960 |
|
Scottish music critic, famous for 15 people |
| Joe Morgenstern |
Critic |
3-Oct-1932 |
|
Wall Street Journal film critic |
| John Middleton Murry |
Critic |
6-Aug-1889 |
13-Mar-1957 |
The Story of D. H. Lawrence |
| George Jean Nathan |
Author |
14-Feb-1882 |
8-Apr-1958 |
American Mercury |
| Max Nordau |
Critic |
29-Jul-1849 |
23-Jan-1923 |
Zionist and cultural critic, Degeneration |
| Nikolai Novikov |
Critic |
27-Apr-1744 |
31-Jul-1818 |
Early Russian critic, The Drone |
| Elder Olson |
Critic |
9-Mar-1909 |
25-Jul-1992 |
Critics and Criticism |
| Francis Turner Palgrave |
Critic |
28-Sep-1824 |
24-Oct-1897 |
Golden Treasury |
| Michael Parenti |
Critic |
1933 |
|
Make-Believe Media |
| Dorothy Parker |
Author |
22-Aug-1893 |
7-Jun-1967 |
Constant Reader known for acerbic quips |
| Robert M. Parker |
Critic |
23-Jul-1947 |
|
The Wine Advocate |
| Walter Pater |
Critic |
4-Aug-1839 |
30-Jul-1894 |
Marius the Epicurean |
| Isabel Paterson |
Author |
22-Jan-1886 |
10-Jan-1961 |
The God of the Machine |
| Coventry Patmore |
Poet |
23-Jul-1823 |
26-Nov-1896 |
The Unknown Eros |
| Cesare Pavese |
Poet |
9-Sep-1908 |
27-Aug-1950 |
La luna e i falò |
| William Lyon Phelps |
Critic |
2-Jan-1865 |
21-Aug-1943 |
Essays on Modern Novelists |
| Philetas of Cos |
Poet |
fl 4th. c. BC |
fl. 4th c. BC |
Very thin Alexandrian poet, critic |
| Robert Pinsky |
Poet |
20-Oct-1940 |
|
US Poet Laureate, 1997-2000 |
| Richard Poirier |
Critic |
9-Sep-1925 |
15-Aug-2009 |
Raritan, A Quarterly Review |
| Quintilian |
Critic |
35 AD |
96 AD |
Institutio Oratoria |
| Philip Rahv |
Critic |
10-Mar-1908 |
22-Dec-1973 |
Co-Founder, Partisan Review |
| Burton Rascoe |
Critic |
22-Oct-1892 |
19-Mar-1957 |
The New York Tribune |
| Rex Reed |
Critic |
2-Oct-1938 |
|
At the Movies |
| Ruth Reichl |
Critic |
16-Jan-1948 |
|
Editor-in-Chief, Gourmet magazine |
| Frank Rich |
Columnist |
2-Jun-1949 |
|
New York magazine |
| I. A. Richards |
Critic |
26-Feb-1893 |
7-Sep-1979 |
The Meaning of Meaning |
| Laura Riding |
Poet |
16-Jan-1901 |
2-Sep-1991 |
A Survey of Modernist Poetry |
| Éric Rohmer |
Film Director |
4-Apr-1920 |
11-Jan-2010 |
Ma Nuit chez Maud |
| Salman Rushdie |
Novelist |
19-Jun-1947 |
|
The Satanic Verses |
| John Ruskin |
Critic |
8-Feb-1819 |
20-Jan-1900 |
Greatest Victorian art critic |
| Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve |
Critic |
23-Dec-1804 |
13-Oct-1869 |
Portraits contemporains |
| George Saintsbury |
Critic |
23-Oct-1845 |
28-Jan-1933 |
A History of Criticism |
| Pitts Sanborn |
Critic |
1878 |
7-Mar-1941 |
Music critic for New York Globe |
| Andrew Sarris |
Critic |
31-Oct-1928 |
20-Jun-2012 |
The American Cinema |
| August Wilhelm von Schlegel |
Scholar |
8-Sep-1767 |
12-May-1845 |
Über dramatisch Kunst und Literatur |
| Tom Shales |
Critic |
3-Nov-1948 |
|
TV critic |
| Gene Shalit |
Critic |
25-Mar-1932 |
|
Film critic |
| Wilfrid Sheed |
Author |
27-Dec-1930 |
19-Jan-2011 |
Office Politics |
| Elaine Showalter |
Critic |
21-Jan-1941 |
|
Lead alpha Gynocritic |
| Joel Siegel |
Critic |
7-Jul-1943 |
29-Jun-2007 |
Film critic |
| John Simon |
Critic |
12-May-1925 |
|
Reviewer for New York magazine |
| Louis Simpson |
Poet |
27-Mar-1923 |
|
At The End of the Open Road |
| Gene Siskel |
Critic |
26-Jan-1946 |
20-Feb-1999 |
Siskel and Ebert |
| Norman Solomon |
Critic |
1952 |
|
Media critic |
| Stephen Spender |
Poet |
28-Feb-1909 |
16-Jul-1995 |
The Destructive Element |
| Joel Elias Spingarn |
Critic |
17-May-1875 |
26-Jul-1939 |
Literary critic, NAACP leader |
| Gayatri Spivak |
Scholar |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Postcolonialist theorist, Can the Subaltern Speak? |
| George Steiner |
Critic |
23-Apr-1929 |
|
After Babel |
| Sir Leslie Stephen |
Encyclopaedist |
28-Nov-1832 |
22-Feb-1904 |
Dictionary of National Biography |
| Richard Henry Stoddard |
Novelist |
2-Jul-1825 |
12-May-1903 |
Abraham Lincoln, An Horatian Ode |
| Lytton Strachey |
Author |
1-Mar-1880 |
21-Jan-1932 |
Eminent Victorians |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne |
Poet |
5-Apr-1837 |
10-Apr-1909 |
Masochist Victorian poet |
| John Addington Symonds |
Critic |
5-Oct-1840 |
19-Apr-1893 |
Renaissance in Italy |
| Arthur Symons |
Poet |
28-Feb-1865 |
22-Jan-1945 |
English symbolist poet |
| Hippolyte Taine |
Historian |
21-Apr-1828 |
5-Mar-1893 |
Origines de la France Contemporaine |
| Alessandro Tassoni |
Poet |
28-Sep-1565 |
25-Apr-1635 |
The Rape of the Bucket |
| Allen Tate |
Poet |
19-Nov-1899 |
9-Feb-1979 |
Mr. Pope and Other Poems |
| Mayo Thompson |
Musician |
? |
|
The Red Crayola |
| Virgil Thomson |
Composer |
25-Nov-1896 |
30-Sep-1989 |
Four Saints in Three Acts |
| Ludwig Tieck |
Novelist |
31-May-1773 |
28-Apr-1853 |
Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen |
| Diana Trilling |
Critic |
21-Jul-1905 |
23-Oct-1996 |
Literary critic, The Nation |
| Lionel Trilling |
Critic |
4-Jul-1905 |
5-Nov-1975 |
The Liberal Imagination |
| Kenneth Tynan |
Critic |
2-Apr-1927 |
26-Jul-1980 |
British theatre critic |
| Mark Van Doren |
Poet |
13-Jun-1894 |
10-Dec-1972 |
The Happy Critic |
| Helen Vendler |
Critic |
30-Apr-1933 |
|
American poetry critic |
| Friedrich von Schlegel |
Philosopher |
10-Mar-1772 |
12-Jan-1829 |
Founder of the German Romantic movement |
| William Weaver |
Translator |
24-Jul-1923 |
|
Translator from the Italian |
| Raymond Williams |
Critic |
31-Aug-1921 |
26-Jan-1988 |
Culture and Society |
| Edmund Wilson |
Author |
8-May-1895 |
12-Jun-1972 |
Axel's Castle |
| Yvor Winters |
Poet |
17-Oct-1900 |
25-Jan-1968 |
Primitivism & Decadence |
| Alexander Woollcott |
Critic |
18-Jan-1887 |
23-Jan-1943 |
The Man Who Came to Dinner |
| Stark Young |
Critic |
11-Oct-1881 |
6-Jan-1963 |
So Red the Rose |
| Nina Zagat |
Critic |
12-Aug-1942 |
|
Zagat Survey |
| Tim Zagat |
Critic |
13-Jun-1940 |
|
Zagat Survey |
