David Denby

David Denby was born in New York in 1943 and was educated at Columbia and Stanford universities. He has been film critic for The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Phoenix, New York magazine, and, since 1998, the New Yorker. He has written two books, Great Books (1996), an account of a year spent in middle age reading Western classics with Columbia undergraduates, and American Sucker (2004), a personal story of greed and loss during the stock market bubble from 1999 to 2002.