Renata Adler

Renata Adler is an American author, journalist, and film critic, born in 1937, whose fiction includes Speedboat and Pitch Dark. Adler spent more than thirty years as a staff writer for The New Yorker and was chief film critic for The New York Times from 1968 to 1969. Her work has earned the O. Henry Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.