Eder, Richard

LC control no.	n 97867058
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Eder, Richard *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated place	New York (N.Y.) Los Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date	19320816
Death date	20141121
Place of birth	Washington (D.C.)
Place of death	Boston (Mass.)
Field of activity	Dramatic criticism Journalism Film criticism Fiction--History and criticism
Profession or occupation	Theater critics Journalists Film critics Critics
Special note	Appointed drama critic June 1, 1977 for New York Times. Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection.
Found in	*MGZR Eder, Richard. [Clippings] Playbill, Nov. 1977. Los Angeles times WWW site, Nov. 24, 2014 (in obituary dated Nov. 22, 2014: Richard Eder died Friday [Nov. 21, 2014] in Boston, at 82; joined the New York Times as a copy boy in 1954 and rose through the ranks, reaching his goal of becoming a foreign correspondent in the early 1960s; became a film critic at the New York Times, then was chief drama critic at the paper from 1977 to 1979; made the leap to the Los Angeles Times as book critic in 1982; chose to review mostly fiction; Richard Gray Eder was born Aug. 16, 1932, in Washington, D.C.; Eder, who lived in the Boston area, retired from the L.A. Times in 1999)
Associated language	eng