Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, poet, and music and film critic.
He worked as a photo editor, staff writer, and eventually became an A&R executive for RCA Records[2] before turning to writing pop music reviews and related articles for Rolling Stone magazine, Blender, The Village Voice, The Atlantic, and Vanity Fair, among other publications.
He first achieved prominence with his 1970s Rolling Stone work, where he tended to cover singer-songwriter and traditional pop artists.
He joined the staff of The New York Times in 1981, and subsequently became one of the newspaper's leading theatre and film critics.
Holden's experiences as a journalist and executive with RCA led him to write the satirical novel Triple Platinum,[2] which was published by Dell Books in 1980.