October 4

This Day at the New Yorker

        
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. - Brendan Gill

Staff Writer Joseph Mitchell claims in his unfinished third chapter of his memoir that he started living in the past on this day in 1968.

Writer and editor Brendan Gill born on this day in 1914 in Hartford, Connecticut.
Gill worked at the New Yorker for more than 60 years.


1930

Rea Irvin

1941

Ilonka Karasz

1947

Garrett Price

1952

Ilonka Karasz

1958

Perry Barlow

1969

Albert Hubbell

1976

Ronald Searle

1982

Heidi Goennel

1993

Edward Sorel

1999

Ever Meulen

2004

Gahan Wilson

2010

David Hockney

2021

R. Kenton Nelson

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