November 20, 2019
Als is a staff writer and chief theater critic at The New Yorker. He is the author of two acclaimed works of nonfiction that explore gender, race, and identity: The Women (1996) and White Girls (2013), which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Lambda Literary Award. Als received a Windham-Campbell Prize for Literature in 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2017. A former fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, Als is an associate professor in the writing program at Columbia University. He has also taught at Yale, Wellesley, Wesleyan, and Smith.