James Wood (critic), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

James Wood (critic)

literary critic

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1965

Place of Birth: Durham, England, United Kingdom

Profession: writer, university teacher, literary critic

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965) is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist. Wood was The Guardian's chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995.
He was a senior editor at The New Republic between 1995 and 2007.
As of 2014, he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.