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John A. Willis
John Alvin Willis (October 16, 1916 – June 25, 2010) was an American theatre and film book editor, theatre awards producer, actor, and educator. He is best known for editing the long-running annual publications ''Theatre World'' and ''Screen World'', and for producing the annual Theatre World Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway debuts for over forty years, from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.
==Personal life==
Mr. Willis was originally from Morristown, Tennessee. He earned an undergraduate degree in English from Milligan College, and did graduate work at Harvard University, Indiana University, and the University of Tennessee. During World War II, he served in the United States Naval Reserve where he was stationed in Enewetak, Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the South Pacific. Mr. Willis was an English teacher with New York Public School System for over twenty years and retired in 1976. He was a member of Actors' Equity Association for over fifty years.
Willis was widely regarded as one of the most important theatre and film historians of the twentieth century.
Willis died at age 93 on June 25, 2010, in his Manhattan home, of complications from lung cancer.〔Weber, Bruce. ("John Willis, Ubiquitous Editor of Theatre World, Dies at 93" ), ''The New York Times'', June 28, 2010. Accessed June 29, 2010.〕
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