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'''Donald Jerome Raphael Bruckner''' (November 26, 1933 – September 20, 2013) was an American [[columnist]], [[critic]], and [[journalist]], whose work landed him on the [[master list of Nixon's political opponents]].<ref name=Fox /> |
'''Donald Jerome Raphael Bruckner''' (November 26, 1933 – September 20, 2013) was an American [[columnist]], [[critic]], and [[journalist]], whose work landed him on the [[master list of Nixon's political opponents]].<ref name=Fox /> |
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Bruckner was born in [[Omaha, Nebraska]]. He studied at [[Creighton University]], Nebraska, and at [[Indiana University]] where he held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, before being awarded a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] in 1955 to study at [[Merton College, Oxford]]. He took a first class degree in English in 1957.<ref name="MCreg">{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=464}}</ref> |
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Returning to the United States, Bruckner became an instructor at [[Lamar University|Lamar College]] in 1958; later that year, he went on active duty, serving with the US Army until 1960 in intelligence and research roles. (He had been commissioned into the [[United States Army Reserve|US Army Reserve]] in 1955.)<ref name="MCreg" /> |
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| ⚫ | After being discharged in 1960, Bruckner joined ''[[The Chicago Sun-Times]]'' as its labour editor.<ref name="MCreg" /> He later joined ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' as head of its Chicago bureau.<ref name=Fox>[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/books/d-j-r-bruckner-columnist-and-critic-dies-at-79.html "D. J. R. Bruckner, Columnist and Critic, Dies at 79"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106182943/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/books/d-j-r-bruckner-columnist-and-critic-dies-at-79.html |date=2017-11-06 }} by [[Margalit Fox]], ''The New York Times'', September 20, 2013</ref> |
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Bruckner was a book and theatre critic for ''[[The New York Times]]'' where he was on staff from 1981 to 2005. Bruckner died in [[Manhattan]] on September 20, 2013, aged 79.<ref name="Fox" /> |
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==Selected publications== |
==Selected publications== |
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*[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/d_j_r__bruckner/index.html Recent and archived news articles by D. J. R. Bruckner] at ''The New York Times'' |
*[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/d_j_r__bruckner/index.html Recent and archived news articles by D. J. R. Bruckner] at ''The New York Times'' |
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==External links== |
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Donald Jerome Raphael Bruckner (November 26, 1933 – September 20, 2013) was an American columnist, critic, and journalist, whose work landed him on the master list of Nixon's political opponents.[1]
Bruckner was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied at Creighton University, Nebraska, and at Indiana University where he held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, before being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1955 to study at Merton College, Oxford. He took a first class degree in English in 1957.[2]
Returning to the United States, Bruckner became an instructor at Lamar College in 1958; later that year, he went on active duty, serving with the US Army until 1960 in intelligence and research roles. (He had been commissioned into the US Army Reserve in 1955.)[2]
After being discharged in 1960, Bruckner joined The Chicago Sun-Times as its labour editor.[2] He later joined The Los Angeles Times as head of its Chicago bureau.[1]
Bruckner was a book and theatre critic for The New York Times where he was on staff from 1981 to 2005. Bruckner died in Manhattan on September 20, 2013, aged 79.[1]
Selected publications
[edit]- Frederic Goudy (Masters of American Design)
- Art Against War: Four Hundred Years of Protest in Art
- Politics and Language: Spanish and English in the United States
- A Candid Talk with Saul Bellow
- The Campaign for Chicago: To Create an Inheritance Forever
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "D. J. R. Bruckner, Columnist and Critic, Dies at 79" Archived 2017-11-06 at the Wayback Machine by Margalit Fox, The New York Times, September 20, 2013
- ^ a b c Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 464.
- Recent and archived news articles by D. J. R. Bruckner at The New York Times
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