and his family remained residents of Greenwich Village after the explosion, maintaining a home on West 10th Street. Gussow was married to Ann, who survived him, along with their son Ethan, who married Susan Baldomar in 1998. Death Gussow died on April 29, 2005 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital from bone cancer at the age of 71. He had kept working until just three weeks before his death, writing at that time an obituary along with New York Times'' colleague Charles McGrath of Canadian-born Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Saul Bellow. In 2008, Gussow was inducted posthumously into the American Theater Hall of Fame at the same time as actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, the actors John Cullum, Lois Smith and Dana Ivey, the director Jack O'Brien, the playwright Peter Shaffer, and the librettist Joseph Stein. Archive The papers and audio/video recordings of Mel Gussow were gifted to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin in 2009. The extensive collection of over 200 boxes consists of article and manuscript drafts, interview notes and transcripts, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, subject files, clippings, and published material. More than 900 sound recordings of Gussow's interviews with actors, playwrights, writers, and directors are held in the Ransom Center's Sound Recordings Collection. In 2018, the Ransom Center began releasing the interviews online as part of their digital collections. References External links Mel Gussow Collection at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin Mel Gussow Digital Collection of audio interviews from the Harry Ransom Center 1933 births 2005 deaths American theater critics American male journalists Deaths from cancer in New York (state) Deaths from bone cancer Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni Critics employed by The New York Times Middlebury College alumni The New York Times writers People from Rockville Centre, New York People from Greenwich Village South Side High School (Rockville Centre) alumni