Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (born 1934) is an American journalist, critic and novelist. He began as an editor for various New York City publishing houses, among them Holt, Rinehart and Winston and The Dial Press. In 1965, he moved to The New York Times Book Review, where he became an editor. In 1969, he was appointed senior Daily Book Reviewer for The New York Times, a position he held until 1995, when he became a regular daily book reviewer. From 1965 until 2000, he wrote more than 4,000 book reviews and articles, on subjects from trout fishing to Persian archaeology. In April 2000, he assumed the job of Chief Obituary Writer for The Times and wrote advance obituaries and occasional daily obits until his retirement on June 30, 2006. Obituaries bearing his byline continued to run in The New York Times as of April 2014. Since that time he has continued to write advance obits as a freelancer for The New York Times, as well as teach writing at the Marymount College Writing Center and College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, the Bronx, New York. He also teaches at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He was just appointed the Editorial Director of Delphinium Books, a literary small press that publishes works of fiction.