Richard Eder

{{Infobox person

|name=Richard Eder

|birth_name=Richard Gray Eder

|birth_date=August 16, 1932

|birth_place=Washington, D.C., U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|2014|11|21|1932|8|16}}

|death_place=Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

|occupation=Film critic, drama critic

|education=Harvard University (BA)

}}

Richard Gray Eder (August 16, 1932 – November 21, 2014){{cite web|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/business/media/richard-eder-arts-critic-and-foreign-correspondent-dies-at-82.html|title=Richard Eder, Arts Critic and Foreign Correspondent, Dies at 82|first=Bruce|last=Weber|date=November 21, 2014}} was an American film reviewer and a drama critic.

Life and career

For 20 years, he was variously a foreign correspondent, a film reviewer and the drama critic for The New York Times.[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0B16F7395D167493C0A81788D85F438785F9 "Eder Named Times Drama Critic"], nytimes.com, March 12, 1977. Accessed November 23, 2014. Subsequently, he was book critic for the Los Angeles Times, winning a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism[https://web.archive.org/web/20121102195304/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/58288788.html?dids=58288788:58288788&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+16,+1987&author=JOHN+GOLDMAN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=L.A.+Times+Wins+Two+Pulitzers+South+Africa+Reporter,+Book+Critic+Honored&pqatl=google Pulitzer Prize for Criticism won by Eder], pqarchiver.com; accessed November 23, 2014. and the National Book Critics Circle annual citation for an entry consisting of reviews of John Updike's Roger's Version, Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, and Robert Stone's Children of Light.{{cite journal|title=The winner's review|journal=The National Book Cricis Circle Journal|date=1 April 1987|volume=13|issue=2|pages=5–6|url=http://bookcritics.org/images/uploads/vol12no3april1987.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028211844/http://bookcritics.org/images/uploads/vol12no3april1987.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 28, 2010}}

In the last years of his life, he wrote book reviews for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. On November 21, 2014, Eder died of pneumonia as a result of post-polio syndrome in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 82.[http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-richard-eder-20141123-story.html Notice of death of Richard Eder], latimes.com; November 23, 2014; accessed November 23, 2014. He was a great-grandson of James Martin Eder.{{Citation needed|date=December 2015}}