Stefan Kanfer (1933–2018) was an American journalist, contributing editor, critic, and author. He was Time magazine’s first bylined film critic 1967–72.
Born to a Yiddish-speaking Romanian-Jewish family in New York City, Kanfer attended New York University and served in army intelligence during the Korean War 1953–55.
In the early 1960s, Kanfer became a film critic, book critic, and senior editor at Time for more than 20 years. He contributed articles for another five years after leaving the Time staff in 1987. Kanfer became a drama critic for The New Leader and a contributing editor or writer on arts, culture, and politics for the City Journal, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
Kanfer’s 16 books include I Want You (1958; two-act musical,) Journal of the Plague Years (1973,) and Fear Itself (1981; novel.) His biographies are Last Empire (1993; about diamond explorer De Beers,) Groucho (2000; about the comedian Julius Henry Marx,) Ball of Fire (2003; about actress Lucille Ball,) Somebody (2008; about actor Marlon Brando,) and Tough Without a Gun (2011; about actor Humphrey Bogart.)
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Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
—Stefan Kanfer
Topics: Sadness, Sorrow
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