Richard Locke is an American critic and essayist.He received a B.A.
from Columbia University, a B.A. from Clare College, Cambridge
University, and did graduate work at Harvard University. He is
currently[when?] Professor of Writing in the Writing Program at
Columbia University School of the Arts, where he has also served as
director of Nonfiction Writing and as department Chair.He has also
been a senior editor at Simon & Schuster, deputy editor of The New
York Times Book Review, editor in chief of Vanity Fair (1983), a
lecturer at the English Institute, Harvard University, and a Poynter
Fellow at Yale University. He has served as a judge of the National
Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize Jury in Criticism, and as a director
and president of The National Book Critics Circle.He is the author of
more than 180 essays and reviews that have appeared in The New York
Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, The
Threepenny Review, Bookforum, Salmagundi, The Yale Review, The
Atlantic, The New Republic, and other publications. His book Critical
Children: The Use of Children in Ten Great Novels, an examination of
works by British and American writers from Dickens to Philip Roth that
use children as vehicles of moral and cultural interrogation, was
published in September 2011.[needs update]
from Columbia University, a B.A. from Clare College, Cambridge
University, and did graduate work at Harvard University. He is
currently[when?] Professor of Writing in the Writing Program at
Columbia University School of the Arts, where he has also served as
director of Nonfiction Writing and as department Chair.He has also
been a senior editor at Simon & Schuster, deputy editor of The New
York Times Book Review, editor in chief of Vanity Fair (1983), a
lecturer at the English Institute, Harvard University, and a Poynter
Fellow at Yale University. He has served as a judge of the National
Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize Jury in Criticism, and as a director
and president of The National Book Critics Circle.He is the author of
more than 180 essays and reviews that have appeared in The New York
Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, The
Threepenny Review, Bookforum, Salmagundi, The Yale Review, The
Atlantic, The New Republic, and other publications. His book Critical
Children: The Use of Children in Ten Great Novels, an examination of
works by British and American writers from Dickens to Philip Roth that
use children as vehicles of moral and cultural interrogation, was
published in September 2011.[needs update]
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