For the American basketball player, see Steven Hunter.
Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic. He currently resides in Columbia, Maryland.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Hunter grew up in Evanston, Illinois as one of 10 children to Charles Francis Hunter, a Northwestern University speech professor, and Virginia Ricker Hunter, a writer of children's books. After graduating fro...
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For the American basketball player, see Steven Hunter.
Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic. He currently resides in Columbia, Maryland.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Hunter grew up in Evanston, Illinois as one of 10 children to Charles Francis Hunter, a Northwestern University speech professor, and Virginia Ricker Hunter, a writer of children's books. After graduating from Northwestern in 1968 with a degree in journalism, he spent two years in the United States Army as a ceremonial soldier in The Old Guard (3rd Infantry Regiment) in Washington, D.C., and later wrote for a military paper, the Pentagon News.
He joined The Baltimore Sun in 1971, working at the copy desk of the newspaper's Sunday edition for a decade. He became its film critic in 1982, a post he held until moving to The Washington Post in the same function in 1997. According to Metacritic he generally grades films lower than the average critic ...
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