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Hilton Als

American writer and theater critic · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1961 · age 65

Hilton Als is an American writer and theater critic. He is a staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker, for which he won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. He received a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2016, and his books include The Women (1996) and White Girls (2013).

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2024Honorary Doctor of Syracuse UniversityAward2017Pulitzer Prize for CriticismAward2016Windham-Campbell Literature PrizesAward2004Berlin PrizeAward2002George Jean Nathan AwardAward2000Guggenheim FellowshipAward1961Born

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Honorary Doctor of Syracuse University2024
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism2017
Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes2016
Berlin Prize2004
George Jean Nathan Award2002
Guggenheim Fellowship2000
Lambda Literary Award

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Als is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. He is a former staff writer for The Village Voice and former editor-at-large at Vibe.

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Born 1961 · age 65

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