Richard Grenier
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Richard Grenier (1926 - January 29, 2002) was a neoconservative cultural columnist for The Washington Times and a film critic for Commentary and The New York Times.
Personal
Grenier was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts.[1]
Education
He graduated from the United States Naval Academy where he obtained a degree in engineering, studied at the Institut des Sciences Politiques in Paris as a Fulbright scholar, and did graduate work at Harvard.[1]
Career
Grenier started his career as a reporter for Agence France-Presse in Paris. He reported from Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, and the Caribbean. While living in New York, he worked as a broadcaster on cultural issues for PBS and later worked as a correspondent for the New York Times.[1]
He is particularly known for his review on the critically acclaimed film, "Gandhi", involving scathing attacks on Gandhi and India. The review was itself criticized by Jason DeParle in a successive issue of The Washington Monthly.[2] Grenier served as a columnist at the Washington Times from 1985-1999 where he wrote about foreign affairs, national politics and culture.[1] Grenier worked as a film critic for Commentary magazine where he wrote columns that were published by WorldNetDaily.com.[1]
Organizations
Grenier was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Harvard Club.
Books
Grenier wrote two novels, Yes and Back Again (1967) and The Marrakesh One-Two (1983), and a collection of essays, Capturing the Culture: Film, Art and Politics (1991).[1]
Family
Grenier was married to his wife Cynthia Grenier. He was the brother of Robert Grenier and Barbara Applebaum.[3]
Death
Grenier died on January 29, 2002 from a heart attack at the age of 68. He passed away at his home in Washington while watching President Bush's State of the Union address.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Richard Grenier, Lieutenant, United States Navy". Arlington Cemetery. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ^ http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/msg/38b451bdbfbefb61?[unreliable source?]
- ^ "Richard Grenier Obituary: View Richard Grenier's Obituary by The Washington Post". The Washington Post. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
External links
- Arlington Cemetery page on Grenier
- "The Gandhi Nobody Knows," by Richard Grenier; Commentary, March 1983.
- Review of The Marrakesh One-Two in The New York Times.
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