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James Wood is a literary critic, essayist and novelist. As of 2010 he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. James Wood's father was a professor of zoology at Durham University. James Wood was educated at Durham... Chorister School and Eton College, where he received a music scholarship. He read English Literature at Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1990 he won the British Press Young Journalist of the Year Award. From 1992 to 1995 Wood was the chief literary critic of The Guardian, and in 1994 served as a judge for that year's Booker Prize for fiction. In 1995 he became a senior editor at The New Republic in the United States. In 2007 Wood became a staff writer at The New Yorker. Wood's reviews and essays have appeared frequently in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books where he is a member of its editorial board. He is also on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College. He is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.
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