Marilyn Stasio

Marilyn Stasio is a New York City author, writer and literary critic. She has been the "Crime Columnist" for The New York Times Book Review since about 1988,^[1] having written over 650 reviews as of January 2009.^[2] She says she reads "a few" crime books a year professionally (about 150) and many more for pleasure.^[1] She also writes for Variety, The New York Post, New York magazine and others. She has served as a dramaturg at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.^[3]

In 1990 she interviewed British writer Ruth Rendell.^[4]

Bibliography

• Showtune: A Memoir (1996; with Jerry Herman)
• Sweet Revenge: 10 Plays of Bloody Murder (1992; with Marvin Kaye)
• Broadway's Beautiful Losers: The Strange History of Five Neglected Plays (1972)