Janet Maslin, an American journalist and critic for years, was born in the year 1949. She is best known as a film and literary critic working for The New York Times.
Biography and Career:
In the year 1970 Janet Maslin graduated from the University of Rochester with a B.A. with a degree and major in mathematics. She got married to record producer Jon Landau for a while but that marriage ended in divorce. She is now married to writer Benjamin Cheever. She lives now a days at Pleasantville, New York with their two sons. At present she is working as the President of the Board of the Jacob Burns Film Center.
Janet Maslin has 35 years of experience in seeing, hearing and reading facts and events and expressing them in her own writings. Working as a literary critic for New York T
imes has given her the scope to earn the fame for herself as a talented film and literary critic. In the year 1977 she began her career as a film critic in Times and working here has changed her life. Before trying her lot as a movie critic she acted as a music critic at the Boston Phoenix and Rolling Stone. It is now often heard that she can try her hand any time now at ballet criticism.
Her interview with Dick Gordon which was broadcast on WBUR, Boston on February 10, 2000 reveals her as a perfect example of a literary critic with honest, straightforward, and lacking in sentiment mentality. A knack for getting to the point is also revealed in this interview.
Short Info:
Birth name: Janet Maslin
She is famous for her literary genius.
Janet Maslin attended the BA Mathematics, University of Rochester (1970).
Why do we like Janet Maslin?
We like Janet Maslin because of her writing talents. We also like her for the way she criticizes movies.
Why is Janet Maslin Famous?
She is famous because of the movie criticism and music criticism made by her. Her work with New York Times has gave her the scope of a perfect movie critic, and she justifies the position.