the window of their apartment on the seventeenth floor of 45 Prospect Place in Tudor City, New York on March 31, 1930. After Elizabeth's death, he began a nearly three-year relationship with writer Nancy Hale, who was then married to Taylor Scott Hardin. Hale refused to leave Hardin for Gibbs (although she did eventually divorce Hardin and married Charles Wertenbaker and, later, Fredson Bowers). He then met his third, and final, wife, whom he married in 1933; Elinor Mead Sherwin (1903–1963), daughter of architect Harold Sherwin of the Sherwin-Williams paint family. Together, they were the parents of two children: Wolcott Gibbs Jr. (b. 1935), known as "Tony," who married Elizabeth Villa in 1958. He has written extensively about yachting and was an editor at The New Yorker for several years in the 1980s. Janet Gibbs, who married James Ward. An alcoholic and heavy smoker, he died of a heart attack while reading proofs of his upcoming book, More in Sorrow, on August 16, 1958, at his home on Ocean Beach, Fire Island. He was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. His widow died on July 30, 1963, of burns she received in a fire at her New York home, 352 East 50th Street. Legacy On October 11, 2011, Bloomsbury USA released the anthology "Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs of The New Yorker" (), with a foreword by P.J. O'Rourke. Bibliography Articles Fiction References Further reading James Thurber, The Years With Ross, 1959 Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker, 1975 Thomas Kunkel, Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross and The New Yorker, 1994 "Whirlwind Gibbs" by Thomas Vinciguerra, The Weekly Standard.The Gibbs Family of Rhode Island'', by George Gibbs V, NY 1933 1902 births 1958 deaths American literary critics American print editors The New Yorker people The New Yorker critics Livingston family Schuyler family 20th-century American writers The Hill School alumni Riverdale Country School alumni Horace Mann School alumni Cheshire Academy alumni Van Buren family