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Brooks Atkinson

author, journalist, theatre critic

1894  – 1984

Justin Brooks Atkinson was an American theater critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1922 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the theater's most influential reviewer of his time." Atkinson became a Times theater critic in the 1920s and his reviews became very influential. He insisted on leaving the drama desk during World War II to report on the war, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his work as the Moscow correspondent for the Times. He returned to the theater beat in the late 1940s, until his retirement in 1960.

All Quotes by Brooks Atkinson

“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
— Brooks Atkinson
“In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.”
— Brooks Atkinson
“In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.”
— Brooks Atkinson