Hilton Als has won the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. While working as a curator, art critic and artist it was his theatre reviews for The New Yorker that were singled out by the judges for the manner that they ‘strove to put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context, particularly the shifting landscape of gender, sexuality, and race.’
Als started contributing to The New Yorker in 1989 and became a staff writer in 1994, and a theatre critic in 2002. Previously, Als was a staff writer for The Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. He also notably edited the catalogue for the 1994–95 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art; collaborated with the performer Justin Bond on the exhibition Cold Water, at La MaMa Gallery; and cocurated Self-Consciousness in 2010 at the VeneKlasen/Werner gallery, in Berlin. Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. His most recent book, White Girls, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2014.
11 April 2017
