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Dwight Garner (born in 1965) is an American journalist, now a daily book critic for The New York Times. Prior to that he was senior editor at The New York Times Book Review, where he worked from 1999 to 2009. He was also the founding books editor of Salon.com, where he worked from 1995 to 1998.

His essays and journalism have appeared in Harper’s, the TLS, the Oxford American, Slate, the Village Voice, the Boston Phoenix, the Nation, and elsewhere. He has served on the board of the National Book Critic’s Circle.

He is the author of “Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements,” and he is at work on a biography of James Agee.

Dwight Garner was born in West Virginia and graduated from Middlebury College. He lives in Garrison, New York. He is married to the cookbook writer Cree LeFavour.