Wolcott Gibbs

Encyclopedia : W : WO : WOL : Wolcott Gibbs

Wolcott Gibbs (1902 - 1958) is most noted as a humourist, parodist, drama critic, and short story writer for The New Yorker magazine from 1927 until his death in 1958. He famously parodied Time Magazine in 1938. He also published a play, Season in the Sun in 1950.

Also a member of the Algonquin Round Table. Because Wolcott Gibbs was contributing to The New Yorker during the same time period as the better-known Alexander Woollcott it is has been mistakenly reported that Wolcott and Woollcott were related. In fact, Wolcott Gibbs was a cousin of Edna Ferber -- yet another member of the Algonquin set -- but he was no relation to Woollcott. On numerous occasions, in print and in person, Wolcott Gibbs expressed an intense dislike for Alexander Woollcott as both an author and as a person.

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.