Background
Holden, Stephen was born on July 18, 1941 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States.
film critic journalist music critic writer poet
Holden, Stephen was born on July 18, 1941 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1963.
Holden earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1963. He worked as a photo editor, staff writer, and eventually became an A&R executive for Radio Corporation of America Records before turning to writing popular music reviews and related articles for Rolling Stone, Blender, The Village Voice, The Atlantic, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. He joined the staff of the New York Times in 1981, and subsequently became one of the newspaper"s leading theatre and film critics.
Holden"s experiences as a journalist and executive with Radio Corporation of America led him to write the satirical novel Triple Platinum, which was published by Dell Books in 1980.
His poetry has been featured in The New Yorker and is included in the anthology The New Yorker Book of Poems. Holden has appeared on 60 Minutes, 20/20, and Entertainment Tonight, and has provided commentaries on National Public Radio.
(Book by Stephen Holden)
Member of New York Film Critics Circle.
