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Hilton Als

1960–

United States

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Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic. He is a staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker, for which he won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. He received a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in 2016, and his books include The Women (1996) and White Girls (2013).

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