*  Milan, Italy

Education: Bryn Mawr College, PA (philosophy, German); Sorbonne, Paris (philosophy); Harvard (comparative literature)

New York Times film critic of the late 1960s and author of A Year in the Dark (1969).

Adler brought a fresh point of view to newspaper criticism during her brief tenure.

Unlike her colleagues and predecessors, she saw film in a general context, sometimes reviewing industrials and documentaries

and not afraid to write a few sentences about the theater itself.