Jack Anderson is an American

United States

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 dance critic and author. Since 1978, he has been a contributor of dance reviews and other articles in The New York Times

The New York Times

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. He has also written for the magazines Dancing Times and Dance

Dance Magazine

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Anderson graduated from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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 and received a Master's degree in creative writing

Creative writing

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 from Indiana University

Indiana University

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Personal

Anderson is the son of Eleanore and George W. Anderson.

Anderson and George Dorris, a dance scholar and retired professor of English, were married in Toronto

Toronto

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 in 2006. As written in their New York Times wedding announcement:

"Mr. Anderson and Mr. Dorris are the co-editors of Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts, a scholarly journal published three times a year by Routledge

Routledge

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. They knew each other slightly at Northwestern, and met again in 1965 on the subway platform at Lincoln Center after a New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet

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performance. They have been together for 41 years."

Dance

Books

• Choreography Observed. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987. ISBN 0877451729 ISBN 978-0877451723
• Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History. 2nd edition. Princeton: Princeton Book Company Publishers, 1992. ISBN 0871271729 ISBN 978-0871271723

Journals

• Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts,

Poetry

• Traffic: New and Selected Prose Poems. Buffalo: White Pine Press, 1998. ISBN 0898231914 ISBN 978-0898231915
• The Invention of New Jersey University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969