John David Heilpern (8 April 1942 – 7 January 2021) was a British theatre critic, journalist, and author who worked both in the United Kingdom and the United States. He was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair (where he wrote the "Out To Lunch" feature) and longtime drama critic for the New York Observer.
Biography
Heilpern, the son of a bookmaker, was born in Manchester, England, and educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield (which he attended at the same time as the novelist Howard Jacobson) and Oxford University. He began his career at The Observer of London,