Edwin Wilson (theater critic)

Edwin Wilson was the theater critic for The Wall Street Journal from 1972 to 1994. The author or co-author, with Alvin Goldfarb, of several widely used text books on theater, he taught at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center for thirty years. He has been the president of the New York Drama Critics' Circle and the Theatre Development Fund, the chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Drama Jury, and a board member of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the John Golden Fund. He has also written a novel, The Patron Murders.[1]

Wilson studied at Vanderbilt University, University of Edinburgh, and Yale University, and received the first Doctor of Fine Arts degree awarded by Yale.[2] His 90 television interviews with theater artists appeared on 200 PBS stations around the country.[1]

Wilson's books include:

• Wilson, Edwin; Goldfarb, Alvin (2018). Living Theatre: A History of Theatre (7th ed.). New York: Norton. ISBN 9780072562576.
• Wilson, Edwin; Goldfarb, Alvin (2016). Theatre: The Lively Art (9th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 9780073514307.
• Wilson, Edwin (2015). The Theatre Experience (13th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 9780073514277.
• Wilson, Edwin; Goldfarb, Alvin, eds. (2008). Anthology of Living Theatre (3rd ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780073514130.
• Shaw, Bernard (2002). Wilson, Edwin (ed.). Shaw on Shakespeare. New York: Applause. ISBN 9781557835611.
• Wilson, Edwin (2015). The Patron Murders. Westport, CT: Prospecta Press. ISBN 9781632260420.