Richard Locke

Professor

Richard Locke received a B.A. at Columbia in 1962, a B.A. at Clare College, Cambridge University in 1964, and did postgraduate study at Harvard University (1964-1965). He has taught Writing, English, and Comparative Literature at Columbia since 1984. A critic and essayist, he is the author of 170 essays and reviews that have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and other publications. He has been a senior editor at Simon and Schuster (1965-69), deputy editor of The New York Times Book Review (1969-1981), editor in chief of Vanity Fair (1981-1983), a lecturer at the English Institute, Harvard University (1976), and a Poynter Fellow at Yale University (1982). He served as a judge of The National Book Award (1975) and as a director of The National Book Critics Circle (1978-88) and as its President (1981-83). He received the Great Teacher Award from the School of the Arts Alumni Association in 1995 and was Chair of the Writing Division of the School of the Arts from 1995 to 2001. He is currently Professor of Writing and Director of the Nonfiction Concentration of the Writing Division of the School of the Arts.