Alex Ross
Alex Ross
Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. His first book, 'The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century', won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His second book is the essay collection 'Listen to This'. He is now at work on Wagnerism: Art in the Shadow of Music. Ross has received an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Belmont Prize in Germany, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
