Michiko Kakutani
Literary critic and writer
Michiko Kakutani is an American writer and retired literary critic who won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998. She is the author of The Death of Truth.
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American Born 1955 in New Haven, United States
About Michiko Kakutani
Michiko Kakutani was born on January 9, 1955. She studied English at Yale University and graduated in 1976. She started in journalism, reporting for Time magazine and the Washington Post. In 1983 she became a book critic at The New York Times, and she stayed in that role until she retired in 2017. Her work there won her the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998. Her book The Death of Truth is in the BookBits catalog.