Shizuo Kakutani (1911-2004), Japanese mathematician known for the Kakutani fixed-point theorem.
On July 19, 2007, The New York Times published a pre-release story written by Kakutani about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Some critics, such as Michiko Kakutani for the New York Times, describe the book as descending from other novels about rebellious teens, such as J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn New York Times review, May 19, 1995.