Priscilla Gilman, daughter of Richard Gilman, paints a loving but clear-eyed portrait of a complicated man in ‘The Critic’s Daughter’

To the outside world, Richard Gilman was a highly regarded drama critic and teacher, and half of a high-profile literary-world marriage. To his daughter Priscilla, now herself a critic and writer whose work regularly appears in The Boston Globe, he was an energetic, idealistic, committed, and loving father, one who also had an exacting moral compass and a bit of a temper to boot. This revealing and clearly heartfelt memoir — a love letter to... + full article