Andrew Patner
| Andrew Patner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 17, 1959 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | February 3, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Kenwood Academy University of Wisconsin-Madison(B.A.) University of Chicago Law School |
| Occupation | Journalist, broadcaster, Arts critic, author, interviewer |
| Partner(s) | Tom Bachtell |
Andrew Patner (December 17, 1959 – February 3, 2015) was an American Chicago-based journalist, broadcaster, critic, and interviewer. From 1998 until his death in 2015 he served as critic-at-Large for WFMT radio, which broadcast his wide-ranging weekly interview and commentary program, "Critical Thinking".
Previously, Patner had worked as an arts critic for WBEZ and as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. His book, I.F. Stone: a portrait, about the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone was published in 1988. Patner was born in Chicago and attended Kenwood Academy, the College of the University of Chicago, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, the Chicago Maroon, the University of Chicago Law School, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he graduated with a B.A. in history. In 1993, he became the first regular writer for a mainstream Chicago newspaper to write about being gay. His partner of 25 years, Tom Bachtell, is an acclaimed illustrator for The New Yorker magazine.
He was also a regular contributor of arts journalism to the Chicago Sun-Times from 1991 until his death.
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