Brendan Gill
Brendan Gill (October 4, 1914 – December 27, 1997) wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Gill was graduated in 1936 from Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.[1]:127 He was a long-time resident of Bronxville, New York and Norfolk, Connecticut.
A champion of architectural preservation and other visual arts, he chaired the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and authored 15 books, including Here at The New Yorker and the iconoclastic Frank Lloyd Wright biography Many Masks.
In September 1989, Gill wrote the controversial article "The Faces of Joseph Campbell" for the New York Review of Books where he made a number of accusations against Campbell, including charging him with anti-Semitism. Gill was acquainted with Campbell through the Century Club. After his article, many people and from various walks of life who knew Campbell personally, vigorously denied the accusations levied by Gill.
Gill was a good friend of actor Sir Rex Harrison and was among the speakers who memorialized the legendary actor at his memorial service in New York City in 1990 .
Brendan Gill died of natural causes in 1997, at the age of 83 .
[edit] Legacy
Gill's son, Michael Gates Gill, is the author of How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else.[2] His youngest son, Charles Gill, is the author of the novel The Boozer Challenge, a sexy romp of the struggling upper class with tongue-in-cheek humor and wit.
[edit] Offices held
- Chairman of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
- Chairman of the Municipal Art Society
- Chairman of the New York Landmarks Conservancy
- Vice President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
[edit] Works
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[edit] Books
- Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Here at The New Yorker
- Late Bloomers
- Portable Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Parker biography) (1972)
- New York Life: Of Friends and Others
- Cole Porter (Cole Porter biography) (1972)
- Tallulah (Tallulah Bankhead biography) (1972)
- Ways of Loving (short stories) (1974).
- Summer Places (with Dudley Whitney Hill) (1978)
- Lindbergh Alone - May 21, 1927 (1980)
- The Dream Come True: Great Houses of Los Angeles (1980)
- Fair Land to Build in: The Architecture of the Empire State (1984)
- The Trouble of One House (1951)
- The Day the Money Stopped (1957)
[edit] Articles
- Gill, Brendan (15 January 1949). "The Talk of the Town: Runaway". The New Yorker 24 (47): 22–23. I Can Hear it Now - album of speeches and news broadcasts, 1932-45 (with Spencer Klaw).
- Gill, Brendan (4 February 1950). "The Talk of the Town: The Wildest People". The New Yorker 25 (50): 21–22. Transit Radio, Inc.
- Gill, Brendan (4 February 1950). "The Talk of the Town: Improvisation". The New Yorker 25 (50): 25. Hiding telephone lines in the ivy at Princeton (with M. Galt).
- Gill, Brendan (14 January 1985). "The Theatre: The Ignominy of Boyhood". The New Yorker 60 (48): 108–110. Reviews Bill C. Davis' "Dancing in the End Zone", James Duff's "Home Front" and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I".
- Gill, Brendan (28 January 1985). "The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comment". The New Yorker 60 (50): 19–20. West 44th Street development.
[edit] References
- ^ Robbins, Alexandra (2002). Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-72091-7.
- ^ "Fired exec: 'Starbucks saved my life' - CNN.com". CNN. 5 February 2009. http://us.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/02/05/starbucks.saved.my.life/index.html. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
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