Al Alvarez

Al Alvarez was born on Aug 05, 1929 in UK. Al Alvarez's big-screen debut came with in .

Poet, critic, and nonfiction writer Alfred Alvarez was born in London and educated at Oxford University. At age 28, Alvarez was the youngest person ever chosen by Princeton University to deliver the Christian Gauss lectures. He served as poetry critic and editor for The Observer from 1956 until 1966, where he was an early advocate of Sylvia Plath's poetry.