An English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film critic, born in London, United Kingdom. She was one of the major film critics for The New Yorker in the 1960s and 1970s. She wrote short stories, novels, non-fiction books, and screenplays. She was nominated for an...Read more Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971). She started her work as a film and theater critic with The Observer in London, where she wrote several reviews between 1961 and 1967. In 1967, she started a column in The New Yorker. She wrote several novels, including "One by One" (1965), "A State of Change" (1967), "The Cutting Edge" (1978), and "A Woman of Singular Occupation" (1988). She died on May 9, 1993 in London, England, UK.
An English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film critic, born in London, United Kingdom. She was one of the major film critics for The New Yorker in the 1960s and...Read more 1970s. She wrote short stories, novels, non-fiction books, and screenplays. She was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971). She started her work as a film and theater critic with The Observer in London, where she wrote several reviews between 1961 and 1967. In 1967, she started a column in The New Yorker. She wrote several novels, including "One by One" (1965), "A State of Change" (1967), "The Cutting Edge" (1978), and "A Woman of Singular Occupation" (1988). She died on May 9, 1993 in London, England, UK.