Hilton Als | |
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Born | 1960 (age 63–64) New York City, U.S. |
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Education | Columbia University |
Genre | Theatre criticism |
Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Criticism National Book Critics Circle Award Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes |
Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic. He is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley,[1] an associate professor of writing at Columbia University[2] and a staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker.[3] He is a former staff writer for The Village Voice and former editor-at-large at Vibe magazine.
In June 2020, Als was named an inaugural Presidential Visiting Scholar at Princeton University for the 2020–2021 academic year.[4]