Kenneth Tucker is an American arts, music and television critic, magazine editor, and non-fiction book writer.
11 Facts About Ken Tucker
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Ken Tucker earned a bachelor's degree in English from New York University.
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From 1979 to 1983, Ken Tucker was the rock critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.
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Ken Tucker was the magazine's television critic, DVD critic and an editor-at-large until 2013, except for one year as film critic at New York Magazine.
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Since 1982, Ken Tucker has been a rock and pop music critic for the National Public Radio talk show Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
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Ken Tucker has appeared many times on television, including multiple appearances on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Charlie Rose Show, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
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Ken Tucker appears in the 1984 documentary The Gospel According to Al Green.
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Ken Tucker is interviewed on-camera in Cartoon College, a documentary about the history of comics.
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Ken Tucker's reviews have provoked some notable responses from his subjects.
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Ken Tucker won a National Magazine Award in 1995 and has twice won a Deems Taylor Award by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
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Ken Tucker has written frequently about poetry and comic books, most notably for The New York Times Book Review and The Best American Poetry blog.