Caryn James

Caryn A. James is an American film critic, journalist, university lecturer and writer.^[1] She grew up in Providence and completed Bachelor "summa cum laude" at Providence College,^[2] before obtaining her doctorate in English Literature at Brown University^[1] in 1980. Originally, James had planned to enter academia,^[2] but by 1984, she was working as a freelance journalist at The New York Times^[3] New York Newsday, TV Guide and Vogue. She finally landed a three-week temporary position at the New York Times Book Review in late 1984 and later became a permanent staff member.^[2]

In 1988, she moved to the daily newspaper, as a cultural reporter, and in 1989 started doing film critiques. In 1995, she began working as a television critic and in 1997, James was named the New York Times’s first chief television critic.^[2] A year later, she published her first novel, Glorie, to good reviews.^[4]

In 2006, she published her second novel, What Caroline Knew: A Novel and by 2010 had left the Times, returning to film critiques. She was working at Marie Claire magazine and doing freelance work.^[5] The following year, James began working with Indie Wire in a division created for her James on Screens^[1] as well as working as an adjuct professor in film studies at Columbia University.^[6]

Selected works

• James, Caryn (1998). Glorie: A Novel. Zoland Books. ISBN 978-0-944072-87-5. 
• James, Caryn (7 March 2006). What Caroline Knew: A Novel. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-34312-5. 

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