Richard Gray Eder (August 16, 1932 – November 21, 2014) was an American film reviewer and a drama critic.

Life and career

For 20 years, he was variously a foreign

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, a film reviewer and the drama

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for ''

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''. Subsequently, he was book critic for the ''

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'', winning a

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and the

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annual citation for an entry consisting of reviews of

John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tar ...

's '' Roger's Version'', Clarice Lispector's '' The Hour of the Star'', and Robert Stone's '' Children of Light''. In the last years of his life, he wrote book reviews for ''The New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''

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''. On November 21, 2014, Eder died of pneumonia as a result of

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, aged 82.Notice of death of Richard Eder
latimes.com; November 23, 2014; accessed November 23, 2014. He was a

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of James Martin Eder.

References

External links

*https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/author/rev_auth_eder/index.html * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eder, Richard 1932 births 2014 deaths 20th-century American Jews 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American literary critics American male journalists American male non-fiction writers American newspaper reporters and correspondents American people of Russian-Jewish descent Deaths from pneumonia in Massachusetts Deaths from polio Harvard University alumni Jewish American journalists Jewish American non-fiction writers Journalists from Washington, D.C. The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winners Polio survivors Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winners