title: John Watson Aldridge
text: # 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)
  