Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cultural Critic & Author; Theater Critic at The New Yorker; Curator & Professor at UC Berkeley

New York, NY, USA
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Hilton Als Biography

Hilton Als is an American cultural critic known for his writing on theater, art, literature, and the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and identity. Als began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989, became a staff writer in 1994, and later served as the magazine's theater critic. Prior to his work at The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe.

Als is the author of several books, including "The Women," which combines memoir, psychological study, and sociopolitical analysis to examine the roles of sexual and racial identity in the lives and work of his subjects. He also wrote "White Girls," a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Lambda Literary Award, which explores literature, art, music, race, gender, and history. His book "My Pinup" is a meditation on love, loss, Prince, and desire. Als's bibliography also includes "I Don't Remember."

Als has received multiple honors for his contributions to criticism and literature, including the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work at The New Yorker. He has also been recognized with the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lambda Literary's Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature, and the Langston Hughes Medal from City College of New York.

In addition to his writing, Als has curated art exhibitions such as "Alice Neel: Uptown" and "God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin" at David Zwirner Gallery, as well as "Joan Didion: What She Means" at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Als has served as a Presidential Visiting Scholar at Princeton University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught at Columbia University School of the Arts, Princeton University, Wesleyan University, and the Yale School of Drama. Als's career encompasses criticism, curation, and teaching, contributing to ongoing conversations about culture and identity in the United States.

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