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Gail Caldwell is the former chief book critic for The Boston Globe, where she was a staff writer and critic for more than twenty years. In 2001, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She has written three memoirs, A Strong West Wind, Let's Take the Long Way Home, and New Life, No Instructions.
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A critic's life can be a happy one, with the right frame of mind. Robert Birnbaum talks to Pulitzer-prize winner Gail Caldwell about a life well read, 19th-century novels, and the changing of hearts.
Reproduced by permission of
Robert Birnbaum, first published in 2003.
Gail Caldwell was born in Amarillo, Texas, in 1951, and is chief book
critic at The Boston Globe, where she has been on staff since
1985. Caldwell had been a finalist in criticism for both the Pulitzer
Prize (three times) and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award
and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for 'for her insightful
observations on contemporary life and literature.' In a post-prize
interview with Dan Kennedy, Caldwell observes that her intention, is to
use her book reviews as a 'framework on which to build something more
lasting… to write about the range of human experience, and not just
whether to buy this book.' Gail Caldwell lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts with Clemmie (short for Clementine), her Samoyed canine
companion.
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