Richard Critchfield

Richard Critchfield (1931–1994)^[1] was an American essayist.

Career

Richard Critchfield was from North Dakota, having been born in Minneapolis, the son of country doctor from the Great Plains. He graduated from the University of Washington, and received a master's degree at Columbia University. He served as a war reporter in the Vietnam War for four years for the Washington Star, and wrote for that newspaper for around a decade, being a member of its editorial staff. After leaving the Washington Star, he became a foreign correspondent on the Third World, writing for The Economist, The International Herald-Tribune and The Christian Science Monitor.^[2]

Awards

• 1981 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 1970 The Alice Patterson Fellowship

Works

• "The Alice Patterson Foundation Newsletters of Richard Critchfield"
• "The New Environment of Foreign Aid", The Nation, May 15, 1972
• "Science and the Villager: The Last Sleeper Wakes", Foreign Affairs, Fall 1982
• An American looks at Britain. Doubleday. 1990. ISBN 978-0385244572.
• Trees, why do you wait?: America's changing rural culture. Island Press. 1991. ISBN 978-1-55963-028-3.
• The villagers: changed values, altered lives : the closing of the urban-rural gap. Anchor Books. 1981. ISBN 978-0-385-17212-7. (reprint 1994 ISBN 978-0-385-42050-1

References

External links

• Richard Critchfield appears on C-SPAN (June 18, 1990) with Christopher Hitchens, hosted by Brian Lamb on YouTube