Donald Jerome Raphael Bruckner (November 26, 1933 – September 20, 2013) was an American columnist, critic, and journalist, whose work landed him on the master list of Nixon's political opponents.
He studied at Creighton University, Nebraska, and at Indiana University where he held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, before being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1955 to study at Merton College, Oxford.
[2] Returning to the United States, Bruckner became an instructor at Lamar College in 1958; later that year, he went on active duty, serving with the US Army until 1960 in intelligence and research roles.
)[2] After being discharged in 1960, Bruckner joined The Chicago Sun-Times as its labour editor.
[1] Bruckner was a book and theatre critic for The New York Times where he was on staff from 1981 to 2005.