Education
Henry graduated from Yale in 1971 and began his career in journalism in Boston, writing for the Boston Globe.
Henry graduated from Yale in 1971 and began his career in journalism in Boston, writing for the Boston Globe.
Henry lived in North Plainfield, New Jersey as a young manitoba He also wrote on the arts for the Globe, winning a second Pulitzer for his television criticism in 1980. In the 1980s he worked as an arts critic for Time magazine, while pursuing his interests in cultural criticism and in American politics.
Among his articles for Time was a story critical of the Hollywood trade newspapers in their cozy relationship in an industry town.
He died of a heart attack on June 28, 1994 while the book was coming to press
His final, and perhaps most notable, book was In Defense of Elitism, a work of social and cultural criticism that argued that societies and cultures might be ranked on a spectrum ranging from "egalitarianism" to "elitism", and that the contemporary United States had moved too far away from the latter. A view he defended with reference to college education, multiculturalism, and other topics.