Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Woollcott was an American critic, journalist, and popular radio personality, best known for his contributions to The New Yorker magazine and his membership on the radio panel show The Algonquin Round Table. Born on January 19, 1887, in New Jersey, he left Princeton University without graduating in 1910 to became a drama critic for several papers, including The Times and the New York Tribune. He also wrote several books and plays and contributed sundry articles for The New Yorker magazine for nearly 20 years. Woollcott was famously caustic in his reviews and legendary for his prizefighting wit that made him a must-see personality of the Algonquin Round Table and one of the most quotable personalities of the day. He edited and contributed to a short-lived magazine, The Woollcott Reader, and won a special Pulitzer Prize for his war-time broadcasts from London in 1942. He died suddenly in 1943 at 56.
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