James Wood (critic)
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James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965)[1] is an English[A] literary critic, essayist and novelist.
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Born | (1965-11-01) 1 November 1965 (age 58) Durham, County Durham, England |
Occupation | Critic |
Education | Chorister School, Durham |
Alma mater | Eton College Jesus College, Cambridge |
Notable awards | Young Journalist of the Year Berlin Prize Fellowship |
Spouse | Claire Messud |
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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[update], he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University[2] and a staff writer at The New Yorker.