About The Author
Hilton Als is a well-known theater critic, a 2016 Pulitzer Prize recipient, and theater critic for The New Yorker magazine. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and has since written for several publications including The Village Voice, Vibe, and New York Review of Books. His published works include The Women and White Girls. Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and he lives in New York City.