Caryn A. James (born Caryn A. Fuoroli) is an American film critic, journalist, university lecturer and writer.

Biography

James is one of at least three children born to James M. Fuoroli Sr. and Joan A. Ford. A native of

Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...

, she graduated—as Caryn A. Fuoroli—from Providence College in 1974 and obtained her doctorate in English literature at

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. She began working as a freelance journalist at the ''

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''. Beginning in January 1982, Fuoroli instituted her now familiar pen name simply by swapping the family name for her father's first name. She eventually landed a three-week temporary position at ''

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'' and later became a permanent staff member. James moved to the daily newspaper, as a cultural reporter. In 1995, she began working as a television critic and, in 1997, was named by the ''Times'' as its first chief television critic. A year later, James published her first novel, ''Glorie'', to good reviews. In 2006, she published her second novel, ''What Caroline Knew: A Novel'', and by 2010, had left the ''Times'', returning to film critiques. She then began working at ''

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'' magazine while also doing freelance work. The following year, James began working with ''

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'' in a division created for her ''James on Screens''. She writes for ''

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'' and is an adjunct professor in film studies at

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