John Gross

John Gross (born 1935) is an eminent English literary critic, author, and anthologist. He was the editor of the "Times Literary Supplement" from 1974 to 1981 and is currently theatre critic of "The Sunday Telegraph". He was educated in London and at Oxford, and has taught at London University and Cambridge University. From 1983 to 1989 he was a staff writer on the "New York Times". He lives in London.

His works as author and editor include the "New Oxford Book of English Prose", "The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters" (1969; revised 1991), "The Oxford Book of Aphorisms", "The Oxford Book of Essays", "The Oxford Book of Comic Verse", "After Shakespeare", "Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend", his memoir "A Double Thread" (2001), "The Oxford Book of Essays" (2002). In 2006 he edited the "New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes". He writes frequently for the "New Criterion", the "Times Literary Supplement", and "Commentary" magazine. His wife Miriam Gross is also a prominent literary critic.

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*" [http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1391/article_detail.asp Pith and Pen] " a review of "The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes", by Joseph Tartakovsky, in the Summer 2007 "Claremont Review of Books".