Anatole Broyard, 70; Book Critic, Editor
Anatole Broyard, a literary critic and former editor of the New York Times Book Review, has died. He was 70.
Broyard, who lived in Cambridge, Mass., and died of prostate cancer Thursday at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, was a daily book critic for nearly 15 years before serving three years as an editor of the book review.
After retiring in 1989, he continued to write a monthly essay, “About Books,” in the book review, and compiled a weekly, unsigned column of excerpts from books, “Noted With Pleasure.”
Broyard was born in New Orleans. He studied at Brooklyn College and the New School For Social Research.
He wrote two books, “Aroused by Books” and “Men, Women and Other Anticlimaxes.”
He taught creative writing at Columbia University, the New School for Social Research and New York University.
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