(September 20, 1932-August 8, 2001) Born in Bermuda. Graduated from Radcliffe College in 1954. Worked as New York correspondent for the London New Statesman (1965-70), as New York Times film critic (1973-75), and as a freelance writer. Beginning in 1981 taught in the writing program at Columbia University; lectured in a number of writing workshops. Author of Sixties Going on Seventies (essays, 1973), Running Time: Films of the Cold War (1982), Previous Convictions: A Journey Through the 1950s (history and memoir, 1995), and On the Wing: A Young American Abroad (2001). Died in New York City.