Hilton Als
Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 and a theatre critic in 2002. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2017 for his New Yorker work. Before The New Yorker, Hilton was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. Hilton edited the catalogue for the 1994–95 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art. His first book, The Women, was published in 1996. His most recent book, White Girls, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award in 2014, discusses various narratives of race and gender. Hilton is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale University, Columbia University, Wesleyan University and Smith College.