Biography: Brendan Gill (October 4, 1914 – December 27, 1997) was an American journalist. He wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. Gill also contributed film criticism for Film Comment, wrote about design and architecture for Architectural Digest and wrote fifteen books, including a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brendan Gill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.