Lawrence Van Gelder
Encyclopedia
Lawrence Van Gelder is an American
journalist and instructor in journalism who has worked at several different New York City
-based newspapers in his long career. Until 2010 he was senior editor of the Arts and Leisure weekly section of The New York Times
. Among the newspapers for which Van Gelder has worked are the New York Daily Mirror
, the New York Journal-American and the World-Journal-Tribune.
was his brother and Gordon Van Gelder
, the editor and publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
, is a nephew. He began working at the Times in May of 1967.
United States
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journalist and instructor in journalism who has worked at several different New York City
New York City
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-based newspapers in his long career. Until 2010 he was senior editor of the Arts and Leisure weekly section of The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
. Among the newspapers for which Van Gelder has worked are the New York Daily Mirror
New York Daily Mirror
The New York Daily Mirror was an American morning tabloid newspaper first published on June 24, 1924, in New York City by the William Randolph Hearst organization as a contrast to their mainstream broadsheets, the Evening Journal and New York American, later consolidated into the New York Journal...
, the New York Journal-American and the World-Journal-Tribune.
Biography
Richard Van GelderRichard Van Gelder
Richard George Van Gelder was a prominent mammalogist who served as the Curator of Mammalogy for the American Museum of Natural History in New York for more than twenty-five years...
was his brother and Gordon Van Gelder
Gordon Van Gelder
Gordon Van Gelder is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction editor. As of 2008, Van Gelder is both editor and publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, for which he has twice won the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form...
, the editor and publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...
, is a nephew. He began working at the Times in May of 1967.
External links
- Lawrence Van Gelder at the New York Times