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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. ==Biography== Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Gill attended the Kingswood-Oxford School before graduating 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. One of the publication's few writers to serve under its first four editors, he wrote more than 1,200 pieces for the magazine. These included Profiles, Talk of the Town features, and scores of reviews of Broadway and Off-Broadway theater productions.〔("Eighty-Five from the Archive: Brendan Gill," ''The New Yorker'', March 22, 2010 )〕 As ''The New Yorkers main architecture critic from 1987 to 1996, he wrote the long-running "Skyline" column before Paul Goldberger took his place. A champion of architectural preservation and other visual arts, Gill joined Jacqueline Kennedy's coalition to preserve and restore New York's Grand Central Terminal. He also 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''. Gill was a good friend of actor Sir Rex Harrison and was among the speakers who memorialized the legendary star of the musical ''My Fair Lady'' at his memorial service in New York City in 1990. 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「Brendan Gill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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