Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

The American literary critic Fredric Jameson says of van Vogt:

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

* 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic ( d. 1933 )

* 1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1882 – Marion Bauer, American composer, writer, and critic ( d. 1955 )

* 1884 – Will Cuppy, American author and critic ( d. 1949 )

* 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic

* 1965 – Fiona Kelleghan, American academic and critic

* Eric Asimov ( born 1957 ), American wine critic

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.

The American film critic Pare Lorentz defines a documentary film as " a factual film which is dramatic.

* 1885 – Deems Taylor American conductor and music critic ( d. 1966 )

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governments of India during the 1950s, an intimate of Nehru who served as the American ambassador from 1961 to 1963, was a particularly harsh critic of Mountbatten in this regard.

The term film noir, French for " black film ," first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.

Alain Silver, the most widely published American critic specializing in film noir studies, refers to film noir as a " cycle " and a " phenomenon ", even as he argues that it has — like certain genres — a consistent set of visual and thematic codes.

* 1959 – Owen Gleiberman, American film critic

* 1921 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic ( d. 2005 )

* 1947 – Frank P. Tomasulo, American film professor and critic

* 1886 – Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic ( d. 1963 )

Film critic John Raeburn discusses an early Capra film, American Madness ( 1932 ), as an example of how he had mastered the movie medium and expressed a unique style:

* 1903 – Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer ( d. 1990 )

* 1887 – Harold Lockwood, American actor ( d. 1918 )

He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

* 1939 – Harold Reid, American singer-songwriter ( The Statler Brothers )

* 1974 – Harold Hunter, American skateboarder and actor ( d. 2006 )

In American film, the most prominent comic actors of the silent era were Charlie Chaplin ( although born in England, his success was principally in the U. S .), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

* 1954 – Harold Hongju Koh, American lawyer and Obama Administration advisor

* 1905 – Harold Arlen, American composer ( d. 1986 )

* 1902 – Harold Lasswell, American political scientist ( d. 1978 )

* 1934 – Harold ' Hal ' Kalin, American singer ( d. 2005 )

Harold and Maude is a 1971 American dark comedy film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures.

Harold and Maude is # 45 on the American Film Institute ’ s list of 100 Years ... 100 Laughs, the list of the top 100 films in American comedy.

Rabbi Harold Samuel Kushner is a prominent American rabbi aligned with the progressive wing of Conservative Judaism, and a popular author.

H. Greenwood, U. S. Delegate and Harold B. Butler, Secretary-General, with secretarial staff of the first International Labour Conference in Washington, D. C., October – November 1919, in front of the Pan American Building </ center >

* 1969 – Gale Harold, American actor

* 2002 – Harold Russell, Canadian-born American actor ( b. 1914 )

* 1920 – Harold Sakata, American actor ( d. 1982 )

* 1970 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American industrialist ( b. 1884 )

* 1888 – Harold Hitz Burton, American politician and lawyer, 45th Mayor of Cleveland ( d. 1964 )

* 1904 – Harold Acton, American writer and dilettante ( d. 1994 )

* 1884 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American businessman, yachtsman, and bridge player ( d. 1970 )

* 1916 – Harold Norse, American writer ( d. 2009 )

* 1930 – Harold Bloom, American writer and critic

* 1921 – Harold Camping, American broadcaster and author