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Ada Louise Huxtable

Journalist

Birthday March 14, 1921

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace New York

DEATH DATE Jan 7, 2013 (91)

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About

An architecture critic who won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1970.

Before Fame

She was the Curatorial Assistant for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for four years.

Trivia

She was described as a great lover of cities, a great preservationist and the central planet around which every other critic revolved by architect Robert A. M. Stern.

Family Life

Her father Michael Landman was the co-author of the play A Man of Honor.

Associated With

She won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism like 1975's winner, the late film critic Roger Ebert.