Dwight Garner Biography
Dwight Garner is an American journalist, writer and a literary critic for The New York Times. He was a senior editor at The New York Times Book Review, where he worked from 1999 to 2009. From 1995 to 1998, he was also the founding books editor of Salon.com.
Dwight Garner Age
Garner was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, United States in 1931 and is 88 years as of 2019.
Dwight Garner Early Life
Garner was born in West Virginia, United States. Although information about her family is still unknown.
He graduated from Middlebury College in 1988.
Dwight Garner Wife
His marital status is; married. He is married to the cookbook writer Cree LeFavour, whose memoir, Lights On, Rats Out, discusses her history of self-mutilation. He currently resides in Frenchtown, New Jersey.
Dwight Garner Career
His critic career began back in college, where he studied the great critics in class and found his own voice at the Middlebury Campus newspaper. While in college, his criticism was aided by then-owner of the Vermont Book Shop, Dike Blair, who allowed him to take books for free in order to review them.
His reviews soon caught the attention of Vermont newspapers, and he started writing for the Vanguard Press in Burlington among other publications. Garner also worked at the Addison Independent while in college, which he recalled fondly as one of his formative journalistic experiences.
After college, he stayed in Vermont to freelance and work odd jobs. When he moved to New York, he worked for “Harper’s Bazaar” and was among the founding editors of “Salon Magazine” The New York Times hired him in 1998 to be the editor at the Times Book Review. Ten years later, he transitioned to writing reviews for the regular paper.
His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, the Oxford American, Slate, The Village Voice, the Boston Phoenix, The Nation, and elsewhere. He has served on the board of the National Book Critic’s Circle.
In a January 2011 column for Slate, the journalist Timothy Noah called Garner a “highly gifted critic” who had reinvigorated The New York Times literary coverage and linked him to Anatole Broyard and John Leonard. He once said that “The best feeling a critic can have is discovering a new author,” he said. “A lot of my time is spent in my desk chair in my apartment reading through the books I get.”
He is the author of Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements.
Dwight Garner Net Worth
His primary source of income is journalism, and his critic works, though his estimated net worth is still under review.
Dwight Garner Body Measurements
His measurements are still not known but will be updated as soon as they are updated.
Dwight Garner Books
He is the author of Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements. It was published on November 3, 2009.
This witty and heavily illustrated volume features more than 300 vintage book advertisements—startling and strange, beautiful and funny—that together reveal a kind of secret history of American literature over the last century.
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