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[edit] 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.[1]:127 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.[2] 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.[3] As The New Yorker's 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. Death[edit] Brendan Gill died of natural causes in 1997, at the age of 83. In a New Yorker "Postscript" following Gill's death, John Updike described him as “avidly alert to the power of art in general.”[3] Legacy[edit] Gill's son, Michael Gates Gill, is the author of How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else.[4] His youngest son, Charles Gill, is the author of the novel The Boozer Challenge. Offices held[edit] Chairman of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Chairman of the Municipal Art Society Chairman of the New York Landmarks Conservancy Vice President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Works[edit] This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Books[edit] The Day the Money Stopped (1957) The Trouble of One House (1951) Fair Land to Build in: The Architecture of the Empire State (1984) The Dream Come True: Great Houses of Los Angeles (1980) Lindbergh Alone - May 21, 1927 (1980) Summer Places (with Dudley Whitney Hill) (1978) Ways of Loving (short stories) (1974). Tallulah (Tallulah Bankhead biography) (1972) Cole Porter (Cole Porter biography) (1972) New York Life: Of Friends and Others The introduction to Portable Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Parker collection of her stories & columns) (1972) Late Bloomers Here at The New Yorker (1975) Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (1987) Articles[edit] Gill, Brendan (15 January 1949). "The Talk of the Town: Runaway". The New Yorker. 24 (47): 22–23. I Can Hear it Now - album of speeches and news broadcasts, 1932-45 (with Spencer Klaw). Gill, Brendan (4 February 1950). "The Talk of the Town: The Wildest People". The New Yorker. 25 (50): 21–22. Transit Radio, Inc. Gill, Brendan (4 February 1950). "The Talk of the Town: Improvisation". The New Yorker. 25 (50): 25. Hiding telephone lines in the ivy at Princeton (with M. Galt). Gill, Brendan (14 January 1985). "The Theatre: The Ignominy of Boyhood". The New Yorker. 60 (48): 108–110. Reviews Bill C. Davis' "Dancing in the End Zone", James Duff's "Home Front" and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I". Gill, Brendan (28 January 1985). "The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comment". The New Yorker. 60 (50): 19–20. West 44th Street development.

John Hoyer Updike was an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class," Updike is well known for his careful craftsmanship and prolific writing, having published 22 novels and more than a dozen short story collections as well as poetry, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since the 1950s. His works often explore sex, faith, and death, and their inter-relationships. He died of lung cancer at age 76.

Frank Conroy was an American author, born in New York, New York to an American father and a Danish mother. He published five books, including the highly acclaimed memoir Stop-Time, published in 1967, which ultimately made Conroy a noted figure in the literary world. The book was nominated for the National Book Award. Conroy graduated from Haverford College, and was director of the influential Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa for 18 years, from 1987 until 2005, where he was also F. Wendell Miller Professor. He was previously the director of the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1982–1987. Conroy's published works included: the moving memoir Stop-Time; a collection of short stories, Midair; a novel, Body and Soul, which is regarded as one of the finest evocations of the experience of being a musician; a collection of essays and commentaries, Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now; and a travelogue, Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket. His fiction and non-fiction appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Harper's Magazine and Partisan Review. He was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. In addition to writing, Conroy was an accomplished jazz pianist, winning a Grammy Award in 1986. His book Dogs Bark, But the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now includes articles that describe jamming with Charles Mingus and with Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman. The latter session occurred when Conroy was writing about the Rolling Stones for Esquire. Conroy had arrived at a mansion for the interview, found nobody there, and eventually sat down at a grand piano and began to play. Someone wandered in, sat down at the drums, and joined in with accomplished jazz drumming; then a fine jazz bassist joined in. They turned out to be Watts and Wyman, whom Conroy did not recognize until they introduced themselves after the session. Conroy died of colon cancer on April 6, 2005, in Iowa City, Iowa, at the age of 69. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank\_Co...

امیرمهدی حقیقت (متولد ۱۳۵۳) یک مترجم ایرانی است که از سال ۱۳۸۰ با ترجمهٔ مترجم دردها نوشته جومپا لاهیری وارد عرصهٔ حرفه ای ترجمه ادبی شد. تمرکز اصلی وی ادبیات امریکای شمالی، بخصوص داستان کوتاه، بوده است و در حوزه های بزرگسال و کودک و نوجوان ترجمه کرده است. از او ترجمه دو رمان «همنام» نوشته جومپا لاهیری و «آواز بی ساز» نوشته کنت هریف منتشر شده است. در زمینه داستان کوتاه، مجموعه «خوبی خدا» که داستان‌هایی است از نیویورکر و چند مجله‌ادبی دیگر امریکایی به انتخاب خودش) دو مجموعه داستان از جومپا لاهیری به نام های «مترجم دردها» و «خاک غریب»، «خواب خوب بهشت» نوشته سام شپارد و در «میان گمشدگان» نوشته دن چاون از ترجمه های اوست. او همچنین در مجموعه چهارجلدی قصه های جیبی نشر ماهی، داستان هایی از چهره های شاخص و کلاسیک دنیای ادبیات را هم ترجمه کرده است. ترجمه های امیرمهدی حقیقت در روزنامه همشهری، روزنامه شرق، شهروند امروز، سروش جوان، همشهری جوان و مجلهٔ هندی Gallerie منتشر شده است.

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for his short stories and his memoirs, although he has written two novels. Wolff is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, where he has taught classes in English and creative writing since 1997. He also served as the director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford from 2000 to 2002.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance\_Bo... Vance Bourjaily, a novelist whose literary career, like those of Norman Mailer and James Jones, emerged out of World War II and whose ambitious novels explored American themes for decades afterward. Mr. Bourjaily (pronounced bor-ZHAY-lee) never achieved the top rank of recognition that was predicted for him after publication of his first novel, “The End of My Life,” in 1947, and he figured prominently when critics made lists of writers who were underappreciated or whose promise had gone unfulfilled. But he had a long and substantial career in letters of the sort that was far more prevalent a half-century ago than it is today. Not only a serious novelist, Mr. Bourjaily was also a teacher who spent more than two decades at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and five years at the University of Arizona before becoming the first director of the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at Louisiana State University. He worked as a journalist and an editor. He wrote short stories, essays and reviews. He was also a serious literary socialite. “Everyone came to Bourjaily’s parties in the early 1950s,” Esquire magazine said about him in the 1980s, naming Mailer, Jones, William Styron and others as attendees. At one party Mr. Bourjaily introduced Jones to the actor Montgomery Clift, a pairing that would lead to one of Clift’s signature roles, the brooding bugler Prewitt in the film version of Jones’s novel “From Here to Eternity.” Mr. Bourjaily’s novels often explored what it meant to be an American at a particular historical moment. His second book, “The Hound of Earth” (1955), grounded in the cold war, is about an Army scientist who has gone AWOL in guilt-ridden flight after contributing to the development of the atomic bomb. His third, “The Violated” (1958), a psychologically astute profile of four characters over 25 years—a period with World War II at its center—prompted the critic Irving Howe to write that Mr. Bourjaily was “one of the few serious young novelists who has tried to go directly toward the center of postwar experience.” His other books include “Confessions of a Spent Youth,” a picaresque, autobiographical tale largely about the war and sex; “The Man Who Knew Kennedy,” which tells of the decline into suicide of a young man who seemingly has everything, and which reflects Mr. Bourjaily’s view that the nation’s golden postwar years were curtailed by the assassination of the president in 1963; and “Brill Among the Ruins,” a Vietnam-era parable focusing on a middle-age Midwestern lawyer. As generally well reviewed as these and other books of his were, Mr. Bourjaily seemed always to be measured against his first, “The End of My Life,” which was commissioned by the editor Maxwell Perkins while Mr. Bourjaily was still in the Army. The novel, about a young man coping with his war experiences, was lavishly praised by the critic John W. Aldridge in his influential book “After the Lost Generation.” Aldridge drew comparisons to Fitzgerald and Hemingway. “No book since ‘This Side of Paradise’ has caught so well the flavor of youth in wartime,” Aldridge wrote, “and no book since ‘A Farewell to Arms’ has contained so complete a record of the loss of that youth in war.” Vance Nye Bourjaily was born in Cleveland on Sept. 17, 1922. His father, Monte Ferris Bourjaily, a Lebanese immigrant, was a journalist who became editor of the United Features Syndicate. His mother, Barbara Webb, wrote feature articles and romance novels.