James Wood (critic)

James Wood
Born (1965-11-01) 1 November 1965
Durham, County Durham, England
OccupationLiterary critic
EducationChorister School, Durham
Alma materEton College
Jesus College, Cambridge
Notable awardsYoung Journalist of the Year
Berlin Prize Fellowship
Spouse
(m. 1992)
Children2

James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965) is an English[a] literary critic, essayist and novelist.

Wood was The Guardian's chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995. He was a senior editor at The New Republic between 1995 and 2007. As of 2014, he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker.