11 Facts About Joe Morgenstern

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Joe Morgenstern was born on October 3,1932 and is an American writer and retired film critic.

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Joe Morgenstern wrote for Newsweek from 1965 to 1983, and then for The Wall Street Journal from 1995 to 2022.

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Joe Morgenstern won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2005.

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From 1965 to 1983 Morgenstern was film critic for Newsweek.

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Joe Morgenstern's writings have appeared in CNBC The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, the Columbia Journalism Review and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.

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Joe Morgenstern was a co-founder of the National Society of Film Critics.

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Joe Morgenstern began writing reviews for The Wall Street Journal in May 1995.

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Joe Morgenstern received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2005, making him only the third film critic to win a Pulitzer for criticism, after Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times and Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post.

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In 2022, Joe Morgenstern retired from The Wall Street Journal, with his final column running in print on April 29, two days short of his 27th anniversary with the newspaper.

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Joe Morgenstern was born in New York City, and graduated from Lehigh University in 1953.

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Joe Morgenstern was married to actress Piper Laurie from 1962 until their divorce in 1982; they adopted one daughter.