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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Gross FRSL was an eminent English author, anthologist, literary and theatrical critic. The Spectator magazine called Gross the best-read man in Britain , as did The Guardian. He was the editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981, senior book editor and book critic on the staff of The New York Times from 1983 to 1989, and theatre critic for The Sunday Telegraph from 1989 to 2005. He also worked as assistant editor on Encounter and as literary editor of both The New Statesman and Spectator magazines. John Gross was born and raised in London's East End, to Abraham Gross, a Jewish immigrant from the Polish-Jewish town of Gorokhov from where Gross's family escaped before the entire Jewish population was wiped out in the Holocaust, and to Muriel Gross, also of East European Jewish origin, whose parents came from Vitebsk, an area later made famous by the paintings of Chagall

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