James Wood (critic)

James Wood (critic)

James Wood (born 1 November 1965 in Durham, England) is a literary critic, essayist and novelist. As of 2010 he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University (a part-time position) and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.

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