Bill Marx

Arts Critic and Editor of WBUR Online Arts

Bill Marx has been critiquing the arts in Boston for over 20 years, starting about four years after graduating from Bowdoin College in Maine. Besides writing on theater for WBUR, he has reviewed books regularly for the "Boston Globe" and the "Boston Phoenix." He has contributed essay-reviews to a variety of national publications, including "Parnassus," "Ploughshares," "Washington Post Book World," the "Nation" and the "Village Voice." He has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's Reviewers Citation three times. He has also won U.P.I. and AP awards for his radio reviews.