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William Hamilton (born June 2, 1939 in Palo Alto, California)〔"William Hamilton." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 3 May. 2011.〕 is an American cartoonist and playwright. He is most closely associated with the magazine ''The New Yorker''. Hamilton is famous for his wit and irony and for presenting his characters, most often examples of modern, affluent types, with distinctive "ski-jump" noses noted for a peculiar shape that has become a sort of unofficial trademark. ==Biography== Hamilton grew up on the family estate Ethelwild in St. Helena, California. While he came from a moneyed family, his father was an unemployed, free-spending eccentric amateur inventor. The house, inherited from an uncle, was much as it was in 1901, and Hamilton tells of ancient pencils that shattered upon use. Hamilton's interest in cartooning was sparked by stacks of European magazines found in the house.〔 Hamilton attended Phillips Academy, where the relatively poor Hamilton studied alongside the children of the wealthy. He said that the experience of being "out of place" was "an ideal experience for going into the arts" and "the process of being an alien gives you the distance to be an artist."〔〔 He went on to Yale, where he drew cartoons and covers for campus humor magazine ''The Yale Record''〔Hamilton, William (September, 1960). Cover Illustration. ''The Yale Record''. New Haven: Yale Record.〕 and was a member of Skull and Bones. He graduated from Yale in 1962 with a degree in English. While serving in the US Army (1963–5) he sold his first cartoon to ''The New Yorker'' in 1965.〔〔 In the ''World Encyclopedia of Cartoons'', Richard Calhoun describes Hamilton's work: In 1969, Hamilton married Candida Vargas, granddaughter of Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, dictator of Brazil. They separated in 1976. The disintegration of his marriage prompted his turn to playwriting, and his first play ''Save Grand Central'' was "about the middle of the end of a marriage." Hamilton's plays document the same world as his cartoons, and sometimes recycle lines from his cartoons. His play ''White Chocolate'' has been described as "a farce about race and class in the upper echelons of New York society."〔 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「William Hamilton (cartoonist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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