Brooks Atkinson

Brooks Atkinson was an American theatre critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him “the theater’s most influential reviewer of his time”.

A war correspondent during World War II, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his work as the Moscow correspondent for the Times.

Date of birth:
28th November, 1894
Date of death:
14th January, 1984
"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."
― Brooks Atkinson
Topic(s): Education

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