Brooks Atkinson

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American critic (1894-1984)

United States MusiciansLived 1894 to 1984 · aged 89

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Justin Brooks Atkinson was an American theater critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1922 to 1960. " Atkinson became a Times theater critic in the 1920s and his reviews became very influential.

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Atkinson in the drama department of The New York Times (September 1942)

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1947Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Hubert Renfro KnickerbockerAlso won Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

Anne O'Hare McCormickAlso won Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

Walter DurantyAlso won Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

Arthur KrockAlso won Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

Carlos P. RomuloAlso won Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

Louis P. LochnerAlso won Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

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Justin Brooks Atkinson was an American theater critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1922 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the theater's most influential reviewer of his time." Atkinson became a Times theater critic in the 1920s and his reviews became very influential. He insisted on leaving the drama desk during World War II to report on the war, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his work as the Moscow correspondent for the Times. He returned to the theater beat in the late 1940s, until his retirement in 1960.

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