Brooks Atkinson

thumb| Justin Brooks Atkinson (November 28, 1894 – January 14, 1984) was an American theater critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1922 to 1960. Atkinson became a Times theater critic in the 1920s and his reviews became very influential. He insisted on leaving the drama desk during World War II to report on the war, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his work as the Moscow correspondent for the Times. He returned to the theater beat in the late 1940s, until his retirement in 1960. Quotes The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. Once Around the Sun (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1951), "August 28" (p. 248) External links Category:Theatre critics Category:Journalists from the United States Category:Pulitzer Prize winners Category:1894 births Category:1984 deaths Category:Harvard University alumni Category:People from Massachusetts