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.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Gill was graduated in 1936 from Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He was a long-time resident of Bronxville, New York and Norfolk, Connecticut.
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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.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Gill was graduated in 1936 from Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He was a long-time resident of Bronxville, New York and Norfolk, Connecticut.
In 1936 The New Yorker editor St. Clair McKelway hired Gill as a writer. Gill wrote the long running "Skyline" column for the magazine.
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, two years after the death of Joseph Campbell (1904–1987), a professor and writer on the subject of comparative mythology and comparative religion and author of the four volume work The...
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