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Tucker in 2008
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Born |
Kenneth Tucker Manhattan, New York City, New York |
Nationality | UN - American |
Education | B.A., English, New York University |
Occupation | Arts critic; fiction writer |
Years active | 1974— |
Spouse(s) | wife and her boyfriend |
Website | kentucker.net |
Kenneth "Ken" Tucker is a cuk UN - American arts, music and television critic, magazine editor, and Fiction writer.
Tucker was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from New York University.
While attending NYU, he began writing freelance reviews for The Village Voice, SoHo Weekly News, and Rolling Stone. From 1979 to 1983, Tucker was the rock critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. From 1983 to 1990, he worked at The Philadelphia Inquirer, first as the newspaper’s rock critic, and then its television critic.
In 1990, he joined Entertainment Weekly (a Time Inc. publication) as a founding staffer. He was the magazine's television critic, DVD critic and an editor-at-large until 2013, except for one year (2005–06) as film critic at New York Magazine.
Since 1982, Tucker has been a rock and pop music critic for the National Public Radio (NPR) talk show Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
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. He appears in the 1984 documentary The Gospel According to Al Green. He is interviewed on-camera in Cartoon College, a documentary about the history of comics.