Brendan Gill
Brendan Gill (born October 4, 1914 in Hartford , Connecticut , † December 27, 1997 ) was an American author and journalist who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for over 60 years . Gill also wrote numerous film reviews and several books.
Life
Gill attended the elite university at Yale , where he graduated in 1936. During his student days he became a member of the infamous fraternity Skull & Bones . For most of his life, Gill lived in Bronxville, New York and Norfolk, Connecticut.
Gill was a friend of the fine arts and also actively campaigned for the preservation of architecturally valuable monuments. For many years he was the chairman of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts .
As an author, Gill has written 15 books in addition to countless newspaper and magazine articles, including Here at The New Yorker , in which he wrote about his time as an editor at the New Yorker. In 1995 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Brendan Gill died of natural causes on December 27, 1997 at the age of 83.
His son Michael Gates Gill has also appeared as an author with the book How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else . In addition, his youngest son, Charles Gill, is the author of The Boozer Challenge , also emulating his father.
Quote
"There is not the slightest evidence that life has to be serious"
Bibliography (excerpt)
- Books
- Many masks. A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright . Heinemann, London 1990, ISBN 0-434-29274-5 .
- Here at "The New Yorker" . Da Capo Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-306-80810-2 (reprint of the New York 1975 edition).
- Late bloomers . Artisan Books, New York 1996, ISBN 1-885-18348-8 .
- Ways of Loving . Joseph Books, London 1975 (short stories).
- The malcontents . Jovanovich, New York 1973.
- Cole . A biographical essay . Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 1972, ISBN 0-03-086710-X .
- stories
- Mother Coakley's reform . In: Margaret C. Scoggin (Ed.): More chucklebait. Funny stories for everyone . Knopf, New York 1951 (illustrated by Saul Steinberg ).
- The text . In: Martha Foley (Ed.): The best American short stories . Houghton Mifflin, New York 1945.
- The knife . In: William R. Wood (Ed.): Short, short stories . Harcourt Brace, New York 1951.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Members: Brendan Gill. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 31, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gill, Brendan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartford , Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1997 |