![]() ![]() In 2007 Wood left his role at The New Republic to become a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 1995 he became a senior editor at The New Republic in the United States. From 1991 to 1995 Wood was the chief literary critic of The Guardian, and in 1994 served as a judge for the Booker Prize for fiction. In 1990, he won Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. ![]() His career began reviewing books for The Guardian. ![]() Career Writing Īfter Cambridge, Wood "holed up in London in a vile house in Herne Hill, and started trying to make it as a reviewer". He read English Literature at Jesus College, Cambridge, where in 1988 he graduated with a First. He was educated at Durham Chorister School and Eton College, both on music scholarships. Wood was raised in Durham in an evangelical wing of the Church of England, an environment he describes as austere and serious. ![]() James Wood was born in Durham, England, to Dennis William Wood (born 1928), a Dagenham-born minister and professor of zoology at Durham University, and Sheila Graham Wood, née Lillia, a schoolteacher from Scotland. As of 2014, he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. He was a senior editor at The New Republic between 19. Wood was The Guardian 's chief literary critic between 19. James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965) is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist. ![]()
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