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Peter Prescott, Newsweek book critic, 68
By Associated Press, 4/25/2004 NEW YORK -- Peter Prescott, an award-winning book critic who wrote for Newsweek for two decades, died Friday. He was 68. He died of liver disease complicated by diabetes, said his wife, Anne. Mr. Prescott, who won the George Polk Award for criticism in 1978, worked for nine years as an editor at E. P. Dutton before reviewing books for Women's Wear Daily, Look, and Newsweek. His father was the principal daily book critic for The New York Times between 1942 and 1966. Mr. Prescott was a native of New York. He graduated from Harvard and studied at Sorbonne. Mr. Prescott wrote a memoir of his freshman year at Harvard and "A World of Our Own: Notes on Life and Learning in a Boys' Preparatory School" (1970) based on his experiences at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Conn. Also, he wrote two collections of critical essays and "The Child Savers: Juvenile Justice Observed" (1981), a study of the juvenile justice system. © Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company. |
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