Wolcott Gibbs
Wolcott Gibbs
Wolcott Gibbswas an American editor, humorist, theatre critic, playwright and author of short stories, who worked for The New Yorker magazine from 1927 until his death. He is best remembered for his 1936 parody of Time magazine, which skewered the magazine's inverted narrative structure. Gibbs wrote, "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind"; he concluded the piece, "Where it all will end, knows God!" He also wrote a comedy, Season in the Sun, which ran on Broadway for 10 months...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth15 March 1902
CountryUnited States of America
He wrote about nothing that didn't carry either his name or his initials-sometimes his pieces were signed at both ends.
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing gum.
He wasn't exactly hostile to facts, but he was apathetic about them