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George W. S. Trow
George William Swift Trow, Jr. (September 28, 1943 – November 24, 2006) was an American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic. He worked for ''The New Yorker'' for almost 30 years, and wrote numerous essays and several books. He is best known for his long essay on television and its effect on American culture, "Within the Context of No Context," first published in the November 17, 1980 issue of ''The New Yorker'', and later published as a book.〔The beginning of the essay is available at (''The New Yorker'' website. )〕 This was one of the few times that the magazine devoted its central section to one piece of writing.〔Other pieces given this honor were "Hiroshima" by John Hersey in the August 31, 1946, issue; the three articles that formed the basis of ''Silent Spring'' by Rachel Carson in the June 16, 23, and 30, 1962 issues; three articles that were the basis of ''The Fate of the Earth'', by Jonathan Schell, in the February 1, 8, and 15, 1982 issues; and an article on the massacre of the inhabitants of El Mozote, El Salvador, by Mark Danner, in the December 6, 1993 issue.〕
==Life and career==
Trow was born in an upper-middle-class family in Greenwich, Connecticut. His father was a newspaperman. Trow studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated from Harvard University in 1965. There, he was president of ''The Harvard Lampoon''. He later served as an editor for its offshoot, the ''National Lampoon'', working with young humorists like Michael O'Donoghue. He served on active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard.〔Hertzberg, Hendrik. "The Talk of the Town: Postscript: Swift" ''The New Yorker'' December 11, 2006 (82:41), p. 42, 44〕 In 1966, Trow took a position at ''The New Yorker'', writing articles for the magazine, especially in the section "The Talk of the Town," and contributing short fiction. He worked under editors William Shawn (1951-1987) and Robert Gottlieb (1987-1992), whom he saw as mentors.
In 1994, when new editor Tina Brown invited Roseanne Barr to oversee a special issue on women, Trow quit the magazine in protest. He abandoned the house he was building in Germantown, New York, and traveled around North America, living in Texas, Alaska, and Newfoundland. Several years before his death, he moved to Naples, Italy. He died there in 2006, officially of natural causes.
Trow was socially ambitious: throughout his life, he was "striving to be part of the '10 percent of people at Harvard who wear tuxedos to their own little events in their own little buildings and you can see them out on their balconies with their tuxedos and their often very beautiful girls who are also similarly there from the Vanderbilts and the Astors.'"〔Levy, Ariel. "The Last Gentleman", ''New York Magazine'', March 26, 2007, quoting close friend Jacob Brackman.〕
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