Michiko Kakutani

Michiko Kakutani
Accepting the 2018 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award
Born	(1955-01-09) January 9, 1955 (age 69) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Other names	Michi
Education	Yale University (BA)
Occupations	Critic author journalist
Employers	The Washington Post (c. 1976–1977) Time (1977–1979) The New York Times (1979–2017)
Parents	Shizuo Kakutani (father) Keiko Uchida (mother)
Relatives	Yoshiko Uchida (aunt)
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1998)

Michiko Kakutani (ミチコ・カクタニ, 角谷 美智子, born January 9, 1955) is an American writer and retired literary critic, best known for reviewing books for The New York Times from 1983 to 2017. In that role, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998.