| 词条 | Orville Prescott |
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Orville Prescott (September 8, 1906, Cleveland, Ohio – April 28, 1996, New Canaan, Connecticut) was the American main book reviewer for the New York Times for 24 years. Born in Cleveland, Prescott graduated from Williams College in 1930. He began his career as a researcher for Newsweek, then known as News-Week, and became the literary editor of Cue Magazine before joining the Times, where he wrote three or four book reviews every week from 1942 through 1966. More than any other reviewer, he influenced sales of books across the country, and was held in high esteem. His reviews showed a preference for traditional novels with strong narratives and clear characterizations. In 1958 he reviewed Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and described it as "dull, dull, dull in a pretentious, florid and archly fatuous fashion."[1] In 1961, Gore Vidal wrote a scathing portrait of Prescott as a reviewer.[2] Vidal later wrote that Prescott was so offended by his depiction of a homosexual love affair in The City and the Pillar that he refused to review his work or allow the Times to review it.[3] (Reviews of Gore's books continued to appear in the pages of the Times after 1948, when The City and the Pillar was reviewed.) Prescott edited three anthologies about history and after his retirement wrote two books about the Italian Renaissance.[4] Works
References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-r-booksoftimes.html|title=Books of the Times|website=Nytimes.com|accessdate=3 December 2018}} 2. ^Esquire.com: Gore Vidal, "Comment", July 1961, accessed July 12, 2011 3. ^Gore Vidal, "Introduction to Death in the Fifth Position", in Edgar Box, Death in the Fifth Position (Vintage, 2011), 3-4 4. ^The New York Times: [https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/30/books/orville-prescott-times-book-critic-for-24-years-dies-at-89.html Mel Gussow, "Orville Prescott, Times Book Critic for 24 Years, Dies at 89", April 30, 1996], accessed July 12, 2011 External links
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