Richard Gray Eder (August 16, 1932 – November 21, 2014) was an American film reviewer and a drama critic.

Life and career

For 20 years, he was variously a foreign

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, a

film reviewer Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets ...

and the drama critic for ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

''. Subsequently he was book critic for the ''

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'', winning a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and the

National Book Critics Circle The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American nonprofit organization (501(c)(3)) with more than 700 members. It is the professional association of American book review editors and critics, known primarily for the National Book Critics C ...

annual citation for an entry consisting of reviews of John Updike's ''

Roger's Version ''Roger's Version'' is a 1986 novel by American writer John Updike. Plot summary The novel is about Roger Lambert, a theology professor in his fifties, whose rather complacent faith is challenged by Dale, an evangelical graduate student who beli ...

'', Clarice Lispector's '' The Hour of the Star'', and Robert Stone's '' Children of Light''. In the last years of his life, he wrote book reviews for ''The New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

''. On November 21, 2014, Eder died of pneumonia as a result of

post-polio syndrome Post-polio syndrome (PPS, poliomyelitis sequelae) is a group of latent symptoms of poliomyelitis (polio), occurring at about a 25–40% rate (latest data greater than 80%). These symptoms are caused by the damaging effects of the viral infection ...

in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 82.Notice of death of Richard Eder
latimes.com; November 23, 2014; accessed November 23, 2014. He was a great-grandson of James Martin Eder.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eder, Richard 1932 births 2014 deaths Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winners American people of Russian-Jewish descent American newspaper reporters and correspondents American literary critics Jewish American writers The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winners Deaths from pneumonia in Massachusetts Writers from Washington, D.C. Harvard University alumni Deaths from polio 21st-century American Jews