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John Crosby
ジョン・クロスビー
Jon Kurōsubī
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1912-05-18 （Milwaukee, Wisconsin）
- Died
- 1991-09-07 （Esmont, Virginia） age 79
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin → New Hampshire (Phillips Exeter Academy) → New York → Esmont, Virginia
Career
- Occupations
- newspaper columnist, radio-television critic, novelist, TV host
- Active Years
- 1933-1991
- Affiliations
- The New York Herald Tribune, The Observer
- Memberships
- Peabody Awards Board of Jurors
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phillips Exeter Academy | — | — | — | — | United States |
| Yale University | — | — | — | — | United States |
Phillips Exeter Academy
Country:
United States
Graduated high school
Yale University
Country:
United States
Left without a degree
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Personal Peabody Award | radio criticism | — | Peabody Awards | winner |
Personal Peabody Award
1946
Work:
radio criticism
Organization:
Peabody Awards
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Out of the Blue
1952 essay collectionCollection of radio criticism columns
radiocriticism
With Love And Loathing
1963 non-fictionCriticism collection
televisioncriticism
Men in Arms
1983 suspense novelSuspense novel
spymilitary
Bibliography
- Out Of the Blue (1952)
- With Love And Loathing (1963)
- Never Let Her Go (1970)
- Contract On the President (1973)
- Affair Of Strangers (1975)
- Nightfall (1976)
- The Company Of Friends (1977)
- Snake (1977)
- Dear Judgment (1979)
- Party Of the Year (1980)
- Penelope Now (1981)
- Men In Arms (1983)
- Take No Prisoners - an Horatio Cassidy Adventure (1985)
- The Family Worth (1987)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- literate and causticsatirical
- Recurring Motifs
- media criticismcultural critique
Health
-
cancer晩年cause of death
Legacy
Regarded as the leading television critic in the 1950s. Peabody Award winner and highly respected media critic.
Quotes
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A radio critic is forced to be literate about the illiterate, witty about the witless and coherent about the incoherent.
Source: his column -
See It Now... is by every criterion television's most brilliant, most decorated, most imaginative, most courageous and most important program. The fact that CBS cannot afford it but can afford Beat the Clock is shocking.
Source: On cancellation of Edward R. Murrow's See It Now
Trivia
- Viciously attacked Elvis Presley but his viewership soared afterward.
- Hosted the Emmy-winning TV show The Seven Lively Arts.