Sarah Kaufman (critic)

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Sarah Kaufman (born 1963) [1] is an American author and the dance critic for the Washington Post . She was the recipient of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Her most recent work, The Art of Grace, was published by W.W. Norton and Company in fall of 2015.

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Biography

Kaufman was born in Austin, Texas, and was raised in Washington DC. [1] She earned a BA in English from the University of Maryland, where she studied under poet laureate Reed Whittemore. [1] She graduated in 1988 with a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. [1] [2]

Kaufman studied dance until she gave it up in graduate school. [2] She broke into journalism when she complained to the Washington City Paper that they lacked dance reviews and then began writing reviews for that publication. [3] In the 1990s, Kaufman and her husband moved to Munich, Germany, where she worked as a translator and author of freelance English-language cultural and journalism pieces. [1]

Upon their return to the US, Kaufman began freelancing for the Post. When Post dance critic and Pulitzer-winner Alan M. Kriegsman, whom Kaufman calls "my hero, friend and mentor", retired in 1996, Kaufman took over as dance critic. [4] While writing for the Post, she broke the story that many of the works of Martha Graham were in the public domain. [1] She also won a Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for Arts and Entertainment Reporting for her report on the decreasing number of ballet offerings at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. [1]

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  2. 1 2 Lavery, Sean (November 16, 2010). "Alumna Sarah Kaufman discusses dancing into journalism". Daily Northwestern . Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
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  4. Kaufman, Sarah (April 14, 2010). "2010 Pulitzer Prize: Sarah Kaufman on winning criticism, role of arts coverage". Washington Post. Retrieved August 19, 2011.