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John Lahr is a National Book Critics Circle Award Winner and Book Award Finalist. He is the author of eighteen books and was the senior drama critic of The New Yorker for over two decades. He lives in London. — biography from Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (Editor; Introduction; Editor) 149 copies, 2 reviews
The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No… (Introduction, some editions) 2,415 copies, 14 reviews
Love All the People (Foreword, some editions) 723 copies, 14 reviews
The Complete Plays (Editor) 593 copies, 4 reviews
The Orton Diaries (Editor) 509 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Essays 2007 (Contributor) 458 copies, 11 reviews
Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker (Contributor) 290 copies, 4 reviews
The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Introduction, some editions) 241 copies, 2 reviews
Musical Stages (Afterword, some editions) 107 copies, 1 review
Jelly's Last Jam (Introduction) 29 copies

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