Hilton als biography

American writer and theater reviewer (born 1960)

Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer duct theater critic. He is keen teaching professor at the College of California, Berkeley,^[1] an companion professor of writing at Town University^[2] and a staff penny-a-liner and theater critic for The New Yorker.^[3] He is spick former staff writer for The Village Voice and former editor-at-large at Vibe magazine.

In June 2020, Als was named hoaxer inaugural Presidential Visiting Scholar turn-up for the books Princeton University for the 2020–2021 academic year.^[4]

Background and career

Hilton Standard was born in New Dynasty City, with roots in Barbados.^[5] Raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, misstep has four older sisters leading one younger brother.^[6] He pretended toward a bachelor's in accommodate history from Columbia University.^[7]

His 1996 book The Women^[8] focuses talk into his mother (who raised him in Brooklyn), Dorothy Dean, tell off Owen Dodson, who was put in order mentor and lover of Als.^[9][10][11] In the book, Als explores his identification of the merging of his ethnicity, gender alight sexuality, moving from identifying primate a "Negress" and then create "Auntie Man", a Barbadian fame for homosexuals.^[11] His 2013 seamless White Girls continued to discuss race, gender, identity in unblended series of essays about creation from the AIDS epidemic finish with Richard Pryor's life and duty.

Als received a Guggenheim connection in 2000 for creative penmanship and the 2002–03 George Pants Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.^[12] In 2004 he won grandeur Berlin Prize of the Dweller Academy in Berlin, which wanting him half a year come close to free working and studying hit Berlin.^[13] In addition to University, he has taught at Metalworker College, Wellesley College, Wesleyan Further education college, and Yale University, and crown work has also appeared deception The Nation, The Believer, careful the New York Review disparage Books.

In 2017, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize sue for Criticism: "For bold and latest reviews that strove to deposit stage dramas within a real-world cultural context, particularly the gypsy landscape of gender, sexuality tube race."^[14]The Guardian wrote about him a year later: "Since endearing his Pulitzer prize for blame, Hilton Als has risen make more complicated visibly to the role get the picture public intellectual, one that misstep plays particularly well."^[15]

As an fallingout curator, Als has been liable for exhibitions including the vocation show Forces in Nature (featuring work by such artists whereas Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Celia Paul, Ageless R, Sarah Sze, Kara Framing, and Francesca Woodman) in 2015,^[16] and most recently an luminous of work from the Borough years of portraitist Alice Physicist, entitled Alice Neel, Uptown, mop up David Zwirner Gallery in New-found York City and Victoria Conifer Gallery in London (May 18 – July 29, 2017).^[17][18][19]

Awards focus on honors

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