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American critic, writer (b. )

Michiko Kakutani (ミチコ・カクタニ, 角谷美智子, born January 9, ) is an American writer and retired literary critic, best known for reviewing books for The New York Times from to In that role, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in

Early life and family

Kakutani, a Japanese American, was born on January 9, , in New Haven, Connecticut.

She is the only child of Yale mathematicianShizuo Kakutani and Keiko "Kay" Uchida. Her father was born in Japan, and her mother was a second-generation Japanese-American who was raised in Berkeley, California.^[1][2] Kakutani's aunt, Yoshiko Uchida, was an author of children's books.^[1] Kakutani received her bachelor's degree in English literature from Yale University in , where she studied under author and Yale writing professor John Hersey, among others.^[3]

Career

Kakutani initially worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, and then from to for Time