Thirty-Three Years Later, Jonathan Yardley Retires From WaPo

After thirty-three years and four months, Jonathan Yardley bid adieu to The Washington Post in an opinion article on Friday.

The literary critic wrote over 3,000 reviews while working for the Post and its Sunday supplement, Book World.

In his farewell piece, Yardley says that he achieved his collegiate dream of working for The Washington Post, “I had wanted to work for The Post from the day I left the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in June 1961, and though it took me two full decades to get here it was — for me, at least — worth every minute of the wait.”

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