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John Ivan Simon (né Simmon; May 12, 1925 − November 24, 2019) was an American writer and literary, theater, and film critic. After spending his early years in Belgrade, he moved to the United States, serving in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and studying at Harvard University. Beginning in the 1950s, he wrote arts ...
- 1959–2019
- Horace Mann School
- 1944–1945
Nov 25, 2019 · John Simon, one of the nation’s most erudite, vitriolic and vilified culture critics, who illuminated and savaged a remarkable range of plays, films, literature and art works and their creators...
Nov 30, 2019 · John Simon: Now That He’s Gone, the Image of the Critic as Hater May Have Died Out Too. By Owen Gleiberman. When the critic John Simon died last weekend, at 94, virtually every piece written...
John made a career out of criticizing the vicissitudes of stage and screen—of books, music, movies, theater, and just about every cultural space in between. His extensive writings have been collected in some dozen books, most recently a three-volume set from Applause Books extending over two thousand pages.
Nov 26, 2019 · John Simon, the infamously vitriolic theatre critic who held the top post at New York magazine more or less uninterrupted from 1968 to 2005, died over the weekend. He was 94. This is one of two memorial tributes to his legacy; here is the other.
Nov 25, 2019 · John — who died yesterday at 94, after a stroke — was New York’s drama critic for 36 years, from late 1968 to 2005, apart from a brief period when he moved over to covering film.
Nov 25, 2019 · John Simon, the theater and film critic known for his lacerating reviews and often withering assessment of performers' physical appearance, has died. He was 94.
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