Dr. Hilton Als

Biography

Hilton Als became a staff writer for The New Yorker in 1994 and a theatre critic in 2002. He began contributing to the magazine in 1989, writing pieces for 'Talk of the Town.' Prior to joining The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer and editor-at-large for the Village Voice and Vibe. He edited the catalogue for the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition 'Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art' in 1994-95. His book 'Women,' published in 1996, was followed by his recent work 'White Girls' in 2013, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner of the Lambda Literary Award in 2014, focusing on narratives of race and gender. In 2017, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Als has received multiple accolades including the New York Association of Black Journalists Prize for Magazine Critique/Review in 1997, a Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing in 2000, and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism in 2002-03. He was honored with the Lambda Literary's Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature in 2016. In addition to his writing, Als has collaborated on various exhibitions and curated shows such as 'Alice Neel, Uptown' in 2017, which was selected as one of Artforum's critics' top ten shows of the year.

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