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Barbara Goldsmith is an American author, journalist, and philanthropist. She has received critical and popular acclaim for her best selling books, essays, articles and her philanthropic work. She has been awarded four honoris causa doctorates, and numerous awards; been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, two Presidential Commissions, and the New York State Council on the Arts; and honored by The New York Public Library Literary Lions as well as the Literacy Volunteers, the American Academy in Rome, The Authors Guild, and the Guild Hall Academy of Arts for Lifetime Achievement. In 2009, she received the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit medal from the Republic of Poland. In November 2008, Goldsmith was elected a “Living Landmark” by the New York Landmarks Conservancy. She has three children and six grandchildren. The ''Financial Times'' declared that "Goldsmith is leaving a legacy—-one of art, literature, friends, family and philanthropy."〔Pamela Ryckman, “A Testament of Riches Shared,” ''Financial Times'', September 28, 2007.〕 == Early biography == Goldsmith was born in New York City. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College, after which she took art courses at Columbia University. Her first assignments as a journalist were in the art field, where she simultaneously amassed an art collection comprising mostly contemporary American painting and sculpture. In her early twenties, she wrote a series of prize-winning profiles of such Hollywood luminaries as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, and Audrey Hepburn. In the late 1960s she initiated the “The Creative Environment” series, interviewing in-depth Marcel Breuer, I.M. Pei, George Balanchine and Pablo Picasso, among others, about their creative process. Goldsmith’s “The Creative Environment” caught the eye of Clay Felker, editor of the Sunday magazine supplement of the ''New York Herald Tribune''. After the ''Tribune'' failed in 1967, Goldsmith provided Felker with the money to purchase the name “New York”〔New York (magazine)〕 and in 1968 became a founding editor and writer of ''New York Magazine'', where she wrote not only about art, but also about the colorful characters in the art world. In the third issue of ''New York'', she wrote a landmark article on Viva, a “superstar” in Andy Warhol films, with accompanying photographs by Diane Arbus. At the time, the article was praised and reviled.〔For the import of Goldsmith’s Viva article to the magazine’s reputation for innovative reporting, see “City of Clay,” ''California Monthly'', May/June, 2005.〕 Tom Wolfe called it “Too good not to print”〔Wolfe, Tom. “The New Journalism.” Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., New York, 1973. (ISBN 0060147075). p. 219.〕 and honored her with inclusion in his anthology ''The New Journalism''.〔''Ibid.'', p.219.〕 When Wolfe called her one of the originators of this movement, Goldsmith said, “I think good journalism is all that counts, not a so-called group.”〔Ryckman, “A Testament of Riches Shared,”''Financial Times'', September 28, 2007.〕 Other notable ''New York'' articles included her profiles of the Centennial of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and curator Henry Geldzhaler’s emerging artists exhibit, Thomas Hoving, Jamie Wyeth and Andy Warhol. Goldsmith wrote “Bacall and the Boys” in 1968, a television special about Lauren Bacall in Paris with the then young, unproven avant-garde designers Yves St. Laurent and Giorgio Armani as well as Pierre Cardin and Marc Bohan of Dior. This earned her an Emmy award. In 1974 Barbara Goldsmith became an adviser to the Hearst Corporation and then Senior Editor of ''Harper’s Bazaar'', attracting top writers to the publication. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara Goldsmith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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