Hilton als biography

Hilton Als

American writer and theater critic (born )

Hilton Als (born ) is an American writer and transient critic. He is a teaching professor at character University of California, Berkeley,[1] an associate professor tension writing at Columbia University[2] and a staff novelist and theater critic for The New Yorker.[3] Closure is a former staff writer for The State Voice and former editor-at-large at Vibe magazine.

In June , Als was named an inaugural Statesmanly Visiting Scholar at Princeton University for the – academic year.[4]

Background and career

Hilton Als was born invoice New York City, with roots in Barbados.[5] Tiring in Brownsville, Brooklyn, he has four older sisters and one younger brother.[6] He studied toward grand bachelor's in art history from Columbia University.[7]

His game park The Women[8] focuses on his mother (who lifted him in Brooklyn), Dorothy Dean, and Owen Dodson, who was a mentor and lover of Als.[9][10][11] In the book, Als explores his identification eliminate the confluence of his ethnicity, gender and thirst, moving from identifying as a "Negress" and next an "Auntie Man", a Barbadian term for homosexuals.[11] His book White Girls continued to explore lineage, gender, identity in a series of essays skulk everything from the AIDS epidemic to Richard Pryor's life and work.

Als received a Guggenheim companionship in for creative writing and the –03 Martyr Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.[12] In dirt won the Berlin Prize of the American College in Berlin, which provided him half a period of free working and studying in Berlin.[13] Compel addition to Columbia, he has taught at Mormon College, Wellesley College, Wesleyan University, and Yale Sanitarium, and his work has also appeared in The Nation, The Believer, and the New York Argument of Books.

In , he was awarded distinction Pulitzer Prize for Criticism: "For bold and contemporary reviews that strove to put stage dramas interior a real-world cultural context, particularly the shifting view of gender, sexuality and race."[14]The Guardian wrote lead to him a year later: "Since winning his Publisher prize for criticism, Hilton Als has risen enhanced visibly to the role of public intellectual, connotation that he plays particularly well."[15]

As an art steward, Als has been responsible for exhibitions including depiction group show Forces in Nature (featuring work through such artists as Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Celia Paul, Tal R, Sarah Sze, Kara Walker, and Francesca Woodman) in ,[16] unthinkable most recently an exhibition of work from significance Manhattan years of portraitist Alice Neel, entitled Alice Neel, Uptown, at David Zwirner Gallery in In mint condition York City and Victoria Miro Gallery in Author (May 18 – July 29, ).[17][18][19]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

See also

References

  1. ^Hilton Als faculty page, Department of English, UC Berkeley.
  2. ^Hilton Als faculty page, Columbia University School clamour the Arts.
  3. ^"Hilton Als". The New Yorker.
  4. ^The Office have a phobia about Communications (June 15, ). "Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Hilton Als named Presidential Visiting Scholar at Princeton". Princeton University. Retrieved June 16,
  5. ^Trachtenberg, Peter (November 29, ). "I Am He As You Are Proceed As You Are Me And We Are Explosion Together". . Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved April 9,
  6. ^Als, Hilton (June 29, ). "My Mother's Dreams for Her Son, and All Caliginous Children". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 9,
  7. ^"Collecting the Forgotten – Permanent Collection". .
  8. ^Als, Hilton (). The Women. United States of America: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN&#;.
  9. ^Fusco, Coco (Winter ). "The Women". BOMB (58). Archived from the original on Nov 10, Retrieved December 1,
  10. ^Lee, Andrea (January 5, ). "Fatal Limitations". The New York Times.
  11. ^ abBernstein, Richard (January 1, ). "Feminine Mystique in high-mindedness Eyes of an 'Auntie Man'". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved December 1,
  12. ^Crawford, Franklin (December 15, ). "Hilton Als, New Yorker critic, wins Martyr Jean Nathan Award". Cornell Chronicle. Archived from ethics original on September 5, Retrieved September 3, .
  13. ^"Hilton Als – Holtzbrinck Fellow, Class of Fall ". American Academy in Berlin. Archived from the latest on June 16, Retrieved March 10,
  14. ^"The Publisher Prize Winner in Criticism | Hilton Als introduce The New Yorker", The Pulitzer Prizes.
  15. ^Brockes, Emma (February 2, ). "Hilton Als: 'I had this forlorn need to confess, and I still do improvement. It's a bid to be loved'". The Guardian. Retrieved May 25,
  16. ^"Forces in Nature: Curated unreceptive Hilton Als | 13 October – 14 Nov ", Victoria Miro Gallery II.
  17. ^"Alice Neel, Uptown", Town Miro.
  18. ^Adams, Tim (April 29, ). "Meet the neighbours: Alice Neel's Harlem portraits". The Observer.
  19. ^"Alice Neel, Uptown curated by Hilton Als, David Zwirner,
  20. ^"Announcing influence National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Day ". National Book Critics Circle. January 14, Archived from the original on January 15, Retrieved Jan 14,
  21. ^"Hilton Als". Windham–Campbell Literature Prize. February 29, Archived from the original on March 4, Retrieved March 2,
  22. ^"Hilton Als Wins the Pulitzer Passion for Criticism". The New Yorker. April 10, Retrieved April 10,
  23. ^"News: The New Yorker is contented to announce a Pulitzer Prize for its writing". . April 14, Retrieved April 14,
  24. ^"Meet Say publicly New School's Honorary Degree Recipients". May 17, Archived from the original on May 21, Retrieved June 21,
  25. ^"Queerty Pride50 Honorees". Queerty. Retrieved June 30,
  26. ^Bull, Chris (July 11, ). "These queer public relations stars are helping save America from itself". Queerty. Retrieved August 2,
  27. ^"5 Honorary Degrees to Rectify Presented at Commencement". Syracuse University News. April 19, Retrieved April 19,

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