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literary critic
Practitioners
William Hazlitt
19th-century English essayist and critic (1778-1830)
Josef Václav Sládek
Czech poet, publicist and translator (1845–1912)
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Ruth Berlau
Danish actress, director, photographer and writer
Dashiell Hammett
American writer (1894–1961)
Honoré de Balzac
French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1773–1834)
John Green
American author and YouTuber (born 1977)
Bruce Alexander Cook
American novelist
Christa Wolf
German novelist and essayist (1929–2011)
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Polish-born German literary critic (1920–2013)
Paul Theroux
American travel writer and novelist (born 1941)
René Marill Albérès
French writer and literary critic
Arthur Mizener
American professor (1907–1988)
Umberto Cosmo
Italian literary critic
Remy de Gourmont
French writer (1858–1915)
Robert A. Heinlein
American author and aeronautical engineer (1907–1988)
Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
D. Norman Brown
Literary critic and scholar
Aristotle
Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath (384–322 BC)
Luis Alberto de Cuenca
Spanish academic
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
James Blish
American science fiction and fantasy author (1921–1975)
Howard Rheingold
American critic, writer, and teacher (born 1947)
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Polish writer and translator (1874–1941)
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer (1881–1942)
Herman Melville
American writer and poet (1819–1891)
Clive James
Australian writer and broadcaster (1939–2019)
Josef Škvorecký
Czech-Canadian writer and publisher (1924–2012)
James T. Farrell
American novelist (1904–1979)