Roger Ebert
(b. 1942)

In addition to being a film critic for newspaper and television and using his trademark "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" to rate movies, Ebert has also published several books, including Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook (2002 and 2003). These movie yearbooks gather his movie reviews, interviews, and essays from the previous year into one collective source.

Born in Urbana, Illinois, Ebert became a sportswriter by the age of 15. He graduated from the University of Illinois, where he wrote for the college newspaper. In 1966, he was hired by the Chicago Sun-Times and was given the newspaper's film critic position just six months later. Because he once said, "It's worth spending your life going to the movies and thinking about the movies," it comes as no surprise that Roger Ebert has been a film critic since the age of 23.

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