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American literary critic
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Male
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Birth:
30 April 1923(Brooklyn)
Death:
28 October 2006(Kusatsu, Shiga)
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Biography
Richard Martin Gilman (April 30, 1923, Brooklyn, New York – October 28, 2006, Kusatsu, Japan) was an American drama and literary critic. He was a professor at the Yale School of Drama for 31 years and the author of five books of criticism, and a memoir.
Gilman died of lung cancer at the age of 83.
He was born Jewish, converted to Catholicism as an adult, and lapsed from that faith eight years later.