Gail Pool (born July 4, 1946) is an American writer and critic, whose work has focused on books, the culture of magazines, and travel.
Pool wrote about this powerful experience for the New York Times,[2] and in her book, Lost Among the Baining: Adventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork (University of Missouri Press, 2015).
Pool has lived in San Francisco, where she received an MA in English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and in Brookline, Massachusetts, where she received an MLS at Simmons School of Library and Information Science and was elected to the board of trustees at the Brookline Public Library.
“Can Magazines Find Happiness With Cable?” Columbia Journalism Review, January 1983; reprinted in Readings in Mass Communications, Scott, Foresman, 1988.
“Point of View: Book Reviewing,” Chronicle of Higher Education, July 20, 1988; reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Gale, 2001.
“Imagination’s Invisible Ink: Carol Shields’s Stone Diaries,” Women's Review of Books, May 1994; reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism.
“Pictures From an Expedition: Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge,” Women's Review of Books, Jan. 1999; reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism.