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- Born: July 16, 1920
- Birthplace: New Orleans
- Died: October 11, 1990
- Age: 70
- Diagnosed with prostate cancer
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Anatole Broyard was a New York Times book critic and editor.
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Career
Before serving in World War II as a troop transport officer, Broyard attended Brooklyn College, where he wrote short stories and articles to various magazines.Broyard was a literary critic for The New York Times for 15 years before becoming an editor of The New York Times Book Review. He retired in 1989 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, which he succumbed to the following year.
After his death, controversy over his ethnicity came about when it was discovered that he was part-African-American, which Broyard never revealed.
In the wake of some critics accusing him of hiding his ancestry, Broyard's daughter, Bliss, published a memoir titled My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets that detailed her father's life and the recent racial issues that arose in her family.
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Anatole Broyard on Amazon
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Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir - $14.00
What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dap...Amazon
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Standby - $24.00
This is a wife’s moving story of her husband’s battle with mortal illness–prostate cancer–of his death, of her descent into grief, and of her extraordinary journey back to life. A...Amazon
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Intoxicated by My Illness - $15.00
"Succeeds brilliantly....He lives as a writer and we are the wealthier for it."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDAnatyole Broyad, long-time book critic, book review editor,...Amazon
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