David Denby is an American journalist, best known as a film critic for The New Yorker magazine. Denby grew up in New York City. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1965, and a master’s degree from its journalism school in 1966.
Books in order of publication:
Awake in the dark: an anthology of American film criticism, 1915 to the present. New York: Vintage Books. (1977)
Great books: my adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and other indestructible writers of the Western world. New York: Simon & Schuster. – 1996
Snark: a polemic in seven fits. – 2009
Do the movies have a future?. New York: Simon & Schuster. – 2012
Lit up: one reporter, three schools, twenty-four books that can change lives. New York: Henry Holt. – 2016
Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer. New York: Henry Holt. – 2025
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