John Watson Aldridge
# John Watson Aldridge

James Watson Aldridge (Sioux City, 22 settembre 1922 – Madison, 7 febbraio 2007) è stato uno scrittore statunitense.

Provocò scompiglio nella critica letteraria americana attaccando nelle sue opere la tradizione accademica. Aldridge fu uno dei più significativi scrittori della seconda metà del XX secolo.

## Opere

* After the lost generation; a critical study of the writers of two wars. (1951)
* Critiques and essays on modern fiction, 1920–1951, representing the achievement of modern American and British critics; with a foreword by Mark Schorer. (1952)
* In search of heresy; American literature in an age of conformity. (1956)
* Party at Cranton. (1960)
* Time to murder and create: the contemporary novel in crisis. (1966)
* In the country of the young. (1970)
* Devil in the fire; retrospective essays on American literature and culture, 1951-1971. (1972)
* American novel and the way we live now. (1983)
* Classics & contemporaries. (1992)
* Talents and technicians : literary chic and the new assembly-line fiction. (1992)
