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**Hilton Als** is a Pulitzer prize-winning writer and chief theatre critic at _The New Yorker_. He has received numerous awards, including the New York Association of Black Journalists' first prize for Magazine/Critique/Review and Magazine Arts and Entertainment, a Guggenheim fellowship for Creative Writing, a George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the American Academy's Berlin Prize. He is a Professor at Columbia University's Writing Program, and his work has appeared in _The Nation_ , _The Believer_ , and _New York Review of Books_. He lives in New York City.