• Born: October 19, 1938
• Birthplace: Milan, Italy

Writer Renata Adler is best known for her articles in The New Yorker magazine.

Adler was educated at Bryn Mawr College, the Sorbonne, and Harvard University, and later graduated from Yale Law School. She began writing for The New Yorker in 1962. In 1968, she became the chief film critic of the New York Times for a little more than a year. She returned to The New Yorker, remaining there as a writer until 1982. She captured her controversial single-year tenure as film critic for The New York Times in a collection of reviews, A Year in the Dark: Journal of a Film Critic, 1968-69 (1970).

Adler's short stories -- some of which were published under the pseudonym Brett Daniels -- appeared in several periodicals, such as The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. In 1974, Adler's short stories won first prize in the O. Henry awards competition. Her first novel, Speedboat, which was a reworking of some of her short stories, earned her the Ernest Hemingway Prize (1976) for best first novel. She went on to write another novel and several non-fiction books.

Most Famous Works

• Speedboat (1976)
• Pitch Dark (1983)
• Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS, et al.; Sharon v. Time (1986)
• Gone : The Last Days of The New Yorker (2000)
• Canaries in the Mineshaft: Essays on Politics and Media (2001)
• Irreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Decision That Made George W. Bush President (2004)

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