10 Facts About Benedict Nightingale

William Benedict Herbert Nightingale was born on 14 May 1939 and is a British journalist, formerly a regular theatre critic for The Times newspaper.

Benedict Nightingale was educated at Charterhouse and Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Benedict Nightingale's first published theatre review was for the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser in 1957, a production of Look Back in Anger by a local amateur group.

Benedict Nightingale worked for The Guardian as a reporter, and in 1969 was appointed drama critic of the New Statesman in London, a post that he held until 1986 when he was appointed Professor of English with special reference to Drama at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Benedict Nightingale was appointed chief theatre critic for The Times in London in 1990, in succession to Irving Wardle.

In 2010, Benedict Nightingale published a novel, What's So Flinking Bunny: The Spoonerisms and Misadventures of Tristram Throstlethwaite.

Benedict Nightingale has contributed to many newspapers and journals, including Encounter, London Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Punch, The Sunday Times, and The Observer.

Benedict Nightingale is the son of Ronald Benedict Nightingale, an estate agent, and Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner, whom he wed in 1937; she had previously been married to the writer Evelyn Waugh.

Benedict Nightingale has a sister, the landscape architect Virginia Nightingale.

Benedict Nightingale married American novelist Anne Redmon; the couple have a daughter and two sons.