Background
Denby grew up in New York City.
Denby grew up in New York City.
Stanford University; Columbia University. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1965, and a master"s degree from its journalism school in 1966. Journalism Denby began writing film criticism while a graduate student at Stanford University"s Department of Communication. He began his professional life in the early 1970s as an adherent of the film critic Pauline Kael—one of a group of film writers informally, and sometimes derisively, known as "the Paulettes." Denby wrote for The Atlantic and New York before arriving at The New Yorker.
His first article for the magazine was published in 1993, and beginning in 1998 he served as a staff writer and film critic, alternating his critical duties week by week with Anthony Lane.
In December 2014, it was announced that Denby will step down as film critic in early 2015, continuing with The New Yorker as a staff writer