Michiko Kakutani
| Michiko Kakutani | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 9, 1955 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Other names | Michi |
| Education | Yale University |
| Occupation | Critic, writer |
| Parent(s) | Shizuo Kakutani |
Michiko "Michi" Kakutani (角谷 美智子 Kakutani Michiko?, born January 9, 1955) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic for The New York Times.
Kakutani, a Japanese American, was born on January 9, 1955, in New Haven, Connecticut. She is the only child of Yale mathematician Shizuo Kakutani. She received her B.A. in English literature from Yale University in 1976, where she studied under author and Yale writing professor John Hersey, among others.
She initially worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, and then from 1977 to 1979 for Time magazine, where Hersey had worked. In 1979, she joined The New York Times as a reporter.
Kakutani has been a literary critic for The New York Times since 1983. Her periodically harsh reviews of some prominent authors have garnered both attention and, on occasion, criticism. She has been known to write reviews in the voice of movie or book characters, including Brian Griffin,Austin Powers,Holden Caulfield, Elle Woods of Legally Blonde, and Truman Capote's character Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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