Marilyn Stasio

{{Short description|New York City author, writer and literary critic}}

Marilyn Stasio is a New York City author, writer and literary critic. She has been the "Crime Columnist" for The New York Times Book Review since about 1988,[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/books/review/Upfront-t.html "Up Front: Marilyn Stasio"], New York Times Book Review, January 29, 2009 having written over 650 reviews as of January 2009.*[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/features/books/bookreviews/index.html?s=newest&query=%22marilyn+stasio%22 Book Reviews], by Marilyn Stasio at the New York Times. She says she reads "a few" crime books a year professionally (about 150) and many more for pleasure. She also writes for Variety, The New York Post, New York magazine and others. She has served as a dramaturg at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.{{cite news|url=http://thefastertimes.com/theatertalk/2010/06/03/at-the-eugene-oneill-theater-centers-critics-institute-5q4-dan-sullivan/ |work=The Faster Times |title=At the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Critics Institute 5Q4 Dan Sullivan |first=Davi |last=Napoleon |date=June 3, 2010 |accessdate=June 4, 2010 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607063149/http://thefastertimes.com/theatertalk/2010/06/03/at-the-eugene-oneill-theater-centers-critics-institute-5q4-dan-sullivan/ |archivedate=June 7, 2010 }}

In 1990 she interviewed British writer Ruth Rendell.{{cite book |last= Rendell |first= Ruth |title= From Doon with Death |accessdate= |edition= 2 |orig-date= 1964 |year= 2007 |publisher= Ballantine Books |location= New York |isbn= 978-0-345-49845-8 |oclc= |page= 220 }} (Introducing Chief Inspector Wexford by Daniel Mallory; from 1990 Rendell interview with Marilyn Stasio)