what it said, but because it provided Thurber with the opportunity to make our relationship come to nothing. We were not likely to have become close friends, but we need not have become enemies." As The New Yorker'''s main architecture critic from 1987 to 1996, Gill was a successor to Lewis Mumford as the author of the long-running "Skyline" column before Paul Goldberger took his place. He was also a regular contributor to Architectural Digest in the 1980s and 1990s. A champion of architectural preservation and other visual arts, Gill joined Jacqueline Kennedy's coalition to preserve and restore New York's Grand Central Terminal. He also chaired the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and authored 15 books, including Here at The New Yorker and the iconoclastic Frank Lloyd Wright biography Many Masks. Death Brendan Gill died of natural causes in 1997, at the age of 83. In a New Yorker "Postscript" following Gill's death, John Updike described him as "avidly alert to the power of art in general." Family Gill's son, Michael Gates Gill, is the author of How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else. His youngest son, Charles Gill, is the author of the novel The Boozer Challenge.Offices held Chairman of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Chairman of the Municipal Art Society Chairman of the New York Landmarks Conservancy Vice President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Bibliography Non-fiction Cole Porter (Cole Porter biography) (1972) Tallulah (Tallulah Bankhead biography) (1972) The introduction to Portable Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Parker collection of her stories & columns) (1972) Here at The New Yorker (1975) Biographical essay as introduction to “States of Grace: Eight Plays by Philip Barry” (1975) Summer Places (with Dudley Whitney Hill) (1978) The Dream Come True: Great Houses of Los Angeles (1980) Lindbergh Alone - May 21, 1927 (1980) Fair Land to Build in: The Architecture of the Empire State (1984) Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (1987) New York Life: Of Friends and Others (1990) Late Bloomers (1996) Novels The Trouble of One House (1950) The Day the Money Stopped (1957) Short fiction Collections Ways of Loving'' (1974) Stories ——————— Notes References External links Encyclopædia Britannica entry Brendan Gill Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 1914 births 1997 deaths 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American male writers