- Highly influential and respected drama critic of the "New York Times" from 1925-60.
- Has a theatre named after him in New York.
- Received a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his series of articles on the situation in the war-torn Soviet Union.
- The 34-year-old Mansfield Theater at 256 W. 47th St. (Broadway and 8trh Av.) was renamed the Brooks Atkinson Theater in 1960 after his retirement as the "New York TImes" theatre critic.
- Probably the most influential drama critic in the US, he worked for the "New York Times" from 1925-42, when he requested and received assignment as a war correspondent. Resumed his position as drama critic in 1946 and remained in that job until 1960, when he became a critic at large. He was critic at large until his retirement in 1965.
- In 1962 he received a Special Tony Award, identifying him as "retired drama critic of the 'New York Times'.".
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 22-24. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
- Graduated from Harvard University in 1917.
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