By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O'Neill, focusing on four women closest to him, was started. However, Arthur died in 2014. (Barbara wrote the novels; Arthur edited them.) She completed it for publishing in 2016. Personal life The Gelbs married at the Behrman's apartment in June 1946 and lived with Arthur's parents for six months, due to a postwar housing shortage. They had two sons: Peter, who is General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, and Michael. Death Gelb died in Manhattan, on February 9, 2017, just days after her 91st birthday. References External Links Gelb Papers at the Harry Ransom Center 1926 births 2017 deaths American people of Russian-Jewish descent People from Manhattan American women dramatists and playwrights American women journalists American writers of Russian descent Jewish American dramatists and playwrights Journalists from New York City The New York Times writers Swarthmore College alumni 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American biographers American women biographers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American biographers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American Jews