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Leon Wieseltier
American critic and magazine editor (born 1952)
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| Born | (1952-06-14) June 14, 1952 (age 72) New York City, U.S. |
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| Awards | Dan David Prize (2013) |
Leon Wieseltier (; born June 14, 1952) is an American critic and magazine editor.
From 1983 to 2014, he was the literary editor of The New Republic. He was a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic until 2017, when the magazine fired him following allegations and an admission by Wieseltier of multiple instances of sexual harassment.
In 2020, he became the editor of Liberties, a quarterly literary review.
Early life and education
Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Stella (Backenroth) and Ma