John W. Aldridge Biography Iowa-born literary critic John W. Aldridge held a degree from Berkeley and was a professor of English at the University of Michigan. His reviews long appeared in publications like the New York Times, Harper’s, and Playboy. See Work CRITICISM “A work of distinctly minor Hemingway fiction.” By John W. Aldridge Our 1953 review of “The Old Man and the Sea,” in hindsight. Spring 1953 About Ernest Hemingway By John W. Aldridge