Jonathan Yardley

(1939) Journalist United States

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Jonathan Yardley is a journalist from the United States, best known for Ring.

Quick Facts About Jonathan Yardley

Born: January 1, 1939
Nationality: United States
Profession: Journalist
Notable works: Ring

About Jonathan Yardley

Jonathan Yardley is an American author and former book critic at The Washington Post from 1981 to December 2014, and held the same post from 1978 to 1981 at the Washington Star. In 1981, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Quotes by Jonathan Yardley

One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam]…

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Books

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David [Halberstam] kept on doing what he did because he loved it. One of the obituaries I read quoted him as saying…

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Bad day

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Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is…

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Convinced

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Amis is a force unto himself There is, quite simply, no one else like him.

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Force

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David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington…

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Bigfoot

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You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam…

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Arrogance

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