Alexander Woollcott

American drama critic and commentator (1887–1943)

Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American drama critic for The New York Times and The New York Herald, critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio personality. Woollcott was the inspiration for two fictional characters. The first was Sheridan Whiteside, the caustic and malingering house-guest in the comedic play The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, later made into a film in 1942.

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