Введение
Театральный критик (1933–2005)
Biography
Gussow was born in New York City and grew up in Rockville Centre, Long Island. and Middlebury College, where he served as editor of The Campus, and graduated in 1955 with a BA degree in American literature. He earned an MA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1956. Gussow was a writer for the Army newspaper in Heidelberg, Germany, where he was stationed for two years. including a series of four which were considered "conversations" with playwrights Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard. Times arts reporter Jesse McKinley notes that Gussow's interview collections became "staples of college drama curriculums and the libraries of gossip loving theater fans". 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.
Биография
Гассоу родился в Нью-Йорке и вырос в Роквилл-Центре, Лонг-Айленд, а затем окончил колледж Миддлбери в 1955 году со степенью бакалавра американской литературы, где он был редактором студенческой газеты The Campus. В 1956 году он получил степень магистра журналистики в Колумбийском университете. Гассоу работал журналистом в армейской газете в Гейдельберге, Германия, где служил два года. В его числе – серия из четырех интервью, которые рассматривались как «беседы» с драматургами Артуром Миллером, Сэмюэлем Беккетом, Гарольдом Пинтером и Томом Стоппардом. Журналист New York Times, пишущий об искусстве, Джесси Маккинли отмечает, что сборники интервью Гассоу стали «основой учебных программ по драме в колледжах и библиотек поклонников театра, любящих светскую хронику». Гассоу был женат на Энн, пережившей его, а также на их сыне Итане, который женился на Сьюзан Балдомар в 1998 году.
Biography
Gussow was born in New York City and grew up in Rockville Centre, Long Island. and Middlebury College, where he served as editor of The Campus, and graduated in 1955 with a BA degree in American literature. He earned an MA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1956. Gussow was a writer for the Army newspaper in Heidelberg, Germany, where he was stationed for two years. including a series of four which were considered "conversations" with playwrights Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard. Times arts reporter Jesse McKinley notes that Gussow's interview collections became "staples of college drama curriculums and the libraries of gossip loving theater fans". 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.
Смерть
Гассоу скончался 29 апреля 2005 года в нью-йоркской пресвитерианской больнице от рака костей в возрасте 71 года. Он продолжал работать до трех недель до своей смерти, в это время написав некролог совместно со своим коллегой из New York Times Чарльзом Макгратом о канадском писателе, лауреате Пулитцеровской премии Соле Беллоу. В 2008 году Гассоу был посмертно введен в Зал славы американского театра вместе с актером и драматургом Харви Файерштейном, актерами Джоном Каллумом, Лоис Смит и Даной Айви, режиссером Джеком О’Брайеном, драматургом Питером Шаффером и либреттистом Джозефом Стайном.
Biography
Gussow was born in New York City and grew up in Rockville Centre, Long Island. and Middlebury College, where he served as editor of The Campus, and graduated in 1955 with a BA degree in American literature. He earned an MA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1956. Gussow was a writer for the Army newspaper in Heidelberg, Germany, where he was stationed for two years. including a series of four which were considered "conversations" with playwrights Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard. Times arts reporter Jesse McKinley notes that Gussow's interview collections became "staples of college drama curriculums and the libraries of gossip loving theater fans". 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.
Архив
В 2009 году документы и аудиовизуальные записи Мела Гассоу были переданы в Центр Гарри Рэнсома при Техасском университете в Остине. Обширная коллекция, состоящая из более чем 200 коробок, включает в себя черновики статей и рукописей, записи и расшифровки интервью, переписку, фотоальбомы, фотографии, тематические папки, вырезки из прессы и опубликованные материалы. В коллекции звукозаписей Центра Рэнсома хранится более 900 аудиозаписей интервью Гассоу с актерами, драматургами, писателями и режиссерами. В 2018 году Центр Рэнсома начал публиковать эти интервью онлайн в составе своих цифровых коллекций.