Background

Anthony Lane was born in 1962 in the United Kingdom.

Education

Anthony Lane studied at Sherborne School. He also graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, with a degree in English.

Career

After education, Anthony Lane was hired by Tina Brown to the Independent, where he was a deputy literary editor in 1989-1993. Then, in 1991, he became a Sunday film critic and served in that position for two years. In 1993 Lane started to work at the New Yorker as a film critic. He continues to live in London but makes frequent trips to New York.

Besides, Anthony Lane is a writer. His book, Nobody's Perfect: Writings from the New Yorker, brings together ten years of Lane's criticism, with commentary and an introduction describing his initial experiences occupying the late Pauline Kael s office at the New Yorker. In addition to his views on films such as Forrest Gump, which he disliked, and Titanic, which he liked, the pieces include book reviews and a few profiles of cultural figures such as Nabokov and Buster Keaton, and even a part on the joys of playing with Legos.

Achievements

• Anthony Lane is widely known as a journalist and critic. For his work, he received the National Magazine Award from the New Yorker for Reviews and Criticism for three of his New Yorker articles in 2001. Additionally, Lane became one of the top 30 critics in the world by More Intelligent Life, the web version of the lifestyle publication from the Economist in 2008.

Works

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  • Nobody's Perfect

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    2002

Views

Quotations: "I have always enjoyed the anthologies of books and film reviews."

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• Brad Hooper: "His prose is an amalgam of humor, intelligence, discernment, and style."
  
  Ken Winter: "He is intelligent, witty, entertaining, and, without a doubt, one of the finest reviewers of our time."

Interests

• Film director - Alfred Joseph Hitchcock

Connections

Anthony Lane's wife is Allison Pearson. They have children two, Eveline and Thomas Lane.

Wife:

Allison Pearson

Allison Pearson is an award-winning journalist, and the author is a staff writer for the London Daily Telegraph. Her first novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, became an international bestseller and was translated into thirty-two languages.

Daughter:

Eveline Lane

Son:

Thomas Lane

colleague:

Tina Brown

Tina Brown is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and founder of the Women in the World summits.