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Biography
Hilton Als is an American writer and theater critic. He is a staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker, for which he won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. He received a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in 2016, and his books include The Women (1996) and White Girls (2013). Als is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. He is a former staff writer for The Village Voice and former editor-at-large at Vibe.
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Awards & recognition
- honorary doctor of Syracuse University · 2024
- Pulitzer Prize — Criticism · 2017
- Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes · 2016
- Berlin Prize · 2004
- George Jean Nathan Award · 2002
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- Guggenheim Fellowship · 2000
- Lambda Literary Award





