For 20 years, he was variously a foreign
correspondent, a
film reviewer and the drama
critic for
The New York Times. Subsequently, he was book critic for the
Los Angeles Times, winning a
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and the
National Book Critics Circle annual citation for an entry consisting of reviews of
John Updike's ''
Roger's Version'',
Clarice Lispector's
The Hour of the Star, and
Robert Stone's
Children of Light. In the last years of his life, he wrote book reviews for
The New York Times, the
Los Angeles Times and
The Boston Globe. On November 21, 2014, Eder died of pneumonia as a result of
post-polio syndrome in
Boston, Massachusetts, aged 82. He was a
great-grandson of
James Martin Eder. ==References==