Virginia Kirkus: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Virginia Kirkus Glick
Born	December 7, 1893 • Meadville • Pennsylvania
Died	September 10, 1980 (aged 86) • Danbury • Connecticut
Founder	“Kirkus Reviews”

Wilfrid Sheed

American author

Nancy Newhall

American photography critic, conservationist, and editor

William Morris

British artist and author

Ada Louise Huxtable

American architecture critic

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

James McNeill Whistler

American artist

W. H. Auden

British poet

Rupert Murdoch

Australian-born American publisher

Toni Morrison

American author

Larry McMurtry

American author

Katherine Dreier

American artist and collector

Clement Greenberg

American critic

Elaine de Kooning

American artist

David Mamet

American author

Harlan Ellison

American author

Adrienne Rich

American poet, scholar, and critic

Harold Rosenberg

American art critic

Ernest F. Fenollosa

American orientalist and art critic

Belle da Costa Greene

American librarian and bibliographer

Marc Brown

American author and illustrator