Wolcott Gibbs

Wolcott Gibbs, born in 1902, began working at The New Yorker in 1927. A supremely gifted writer and editor, he had, by his mid-thirties, published more than a million words in the magazine, covering every section, although he was best known, in his later years, as a theater critic—and as a dramatist for his Broadway hit, "Season in the Sun". Gibbs died at the age of 56 on Fire Island.

BACKWARD RAN SENTENCES: THE BEST OF WOLCOTT GIBBS FROM THE NEW YORKER, WITH A FOREWORD BY P.J. O'ROURKE (with Thomas Vinciguerra View Bio)