Michiko Kakutani

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michiko Kakutani
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jan 9, 1955(1955-01-09)
Age	69
Birthplace	New Haven
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Capricorn

Michiko Kakutani Biography

Michiko Kakutani is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on January 9, 1955 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Kakutani is a Japanese American. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut on January 9, 1955. Shizuo Kakutani, a Yale mathematician, and Keiko (“Kay”) Uchida are her only children. Her father was born in Japan and her mother was second-generation Japanese American who was raised in Berkeley. Michiko earned her B.A. Yale University, 1976. She received her B.A. in English Literature. There, she studied with John Hersey (author and Yale Writing professor).

The New York Times published a prerelease story by Kakutani on Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. The newspaper’s Public Editor’s Blog provides a detailed account of the controversy that followed, as well as the criticisms of Harry Potter fans.

In July 2018, Kakutani published a book criticizing the Trump administration titled The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump.

From 1983 to 2017, Kakutani was a literary critic at The New York Times. She retired in 2017. Kakutani’s sometimes harsh reviews of prominent authors have attracted both praise and criticism. Kakutani, for example, called Jonathan Franzen’s The Discomfort Zone in 2006 “an odious self portrait of the artist as a young Jackass.” Franzen later called Kakutani the “stupidest person in New York City”. Kakutani’s 2012 negative review of Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is another example. Taleb wrote in Skin in the Game in 2018 that “someone must have read the book” to see that a reviewer is “full of baloney”. This means that reviewers like Michiko Kakutani can “go on forever, without anyone knowing” they are drinking and fabricating. Kira Cochrane, The Guardian’s journalist, suggests that such counterattacks might have helped Kakutani gain a reputation for being fearless and commendable.

Michiko Kakutani Net Worth

Michiko Kakutani is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michiko Kakutani 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Michiko Kakutani, born January 9, 1955, is an American literary critic. She was previously chief book critic at The New York Times. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Kakutani began her career as a reporter at The Washington Post. She then worked from 1977 to 1979 for Time magazine. Hersey was also a reporter. She joined The New York Times in 1979 as a reporter.

Kakutani announced that she was stepping down as chief book critic of the Times on July 27, 2017. In an article summing her book reviewing career, a writer in Vanity Fair called her “the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world” and credited her with boosting the careers of George Saunders, Mary Karr, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, and Zadie Smith.

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