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Michiko Kakutani is an American literary critic and writer. She is best known for her work as the chief book critic for The New York Times from 1983 to 2017. She has written several books, including The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (2018). Kakutani was born on January 9, 1955 in New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated from Yale University in 1976 with a degree in English literature. She began her career as a reporter for The New York Times in 1979, and was appointed chief book critic in 1983. Kakutani has written several books, including The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (2018). She has also written for The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books. Kakutani is estimated to have a net worth of $2 million.

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Occupation Critic, writer
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 9 January, 1955
Birthday 9 January
Birthplace New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2018

In July 2018, Kakutani published a book criticizing the Trump administration titled The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump.

2017

Kakutani announced that she was stepping down as chief book critic of the Times on July 27, 2017. In an article summing her book reviewing career, a writer in Vanity Fair called her "the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world" and credited her with boosting the careers of George Saunders, Mary Karr, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, and Zadie Smith.

2007

On July 19, 2007, The New York Times published a pre-release story written by Kakutani about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. An account of the ensuing controversy, including the critical comments of some Harry Potter fans, can be found on the newspaper's Public Editor's blog.

1983

Kakutani worked as a literary critic for The New York Times from 1983 until her retirement in 2017. Her periodically harsh reviews of some prominent authors have garnered both attention and, on occasion, criticism. For example, in 2006, Kakutani called Jonathan Franzen's The Discomfort Zone "an odious self-portrait of the artist as a young jackass". Franzen reportedly subsequently called Kakutani "the stupidest person in New York City". Another example is that, in 2012, Kakutani wrote a negative review of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile. In 2018, Taleb stated in his book Skin in the Game that "someone has to have read the book to notice that a reviewer is full of baloney, so in the absence of skin in the game, reviewers such as Michiko Kakutani" can "go on forever without anyone knowing" that they are fabricating and drunk. According to Kira Cochrane in The Guardian, such counterattacks may have bolstered Kakutani's reputation as commendably "fearless".

1977

Kakutani initially worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, and then from 1977 to 1979 for Time magazine, where Hersey had worked. In 1979, she joined The New York Times as a reporter.

1955

Michiko Kakutani (born January 9, 1955) is an American literary critic and former chief book critic for The New York Times. Her awards include a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Kakutani, a Japanese American, was born on January 9, 1955, in New Haven, Connecticut. She is the only child of Yale mathematician Shizuo Kakutani and his wife Keiko ("Kay") Uchida. Her father was born in Japan, her mother was a second-generation Japanese-American who was raised in Berkeley, California. Michiko received her B.A. in English literature from Yale University in 1976, where she studied under author and Yale writing professor John Hersey, among others.