16 Facts About Wolcott Gibbs

Wolcott Gibbs was an American editor, humorist, theatre critic, playwright and writer of short stories, who worked for The New Yorker magazine from 1927 until his death.

Wolcott Gibbs is notable for his 1936 parody of Time magazine, which skewered the magazine's inverted narrative structure.

Wolcott Gibbs was the son of Lucius Tuckerman Gibbs and Angelica Singleton Gibbs, who married in 1901.

Wolcott Gibbs's father was a Cornell-educated mechanical and electrical engineer who variously worked for Otis Elevators and American Rheostat and obtained patents for motors, running gears and heating systems.

Wolcott Gibbs's sister, Angelica, was born in 1908 and his father died of lobar pneumonia in 1909.

Wolcott Gibbs was a descendant of mineralogist George Gibbs and the great-nephew of the chemist Oliver Wolcott Gibbs with whom he shared all three names.

The younger Wolcott Gibbs disdained the "Oliver" and never used it.

Wolcott Gibbs was a direct descendant of Oliver Wolcott Sr.

Wolcott Gibbs descended from the Livingston family and the Schuyler family.

Wolcott Gibbs attended various schools, including Horace Mann School, Riverdale Country Day School, The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and the Roxbury School.

Wolcott Gibbs succeeded and eventually went to The New Yorker in 1927 as a copy reader.

On numerous occasions, in print and in person, Wolcott Gibbs expressed an intense dislike for Woollcott as both an author and as a person.

For many years, Wolcott Gibbs was the editor and publisher of The Fire Islander a weekly newspaper on Fire Island, where he had a vacation home.

Wolcott Gibbs then met his third, and final, wife, whom he married in 1933; Elinor Mead Sherwin, daughter of architect Harold Sherwin of the Sherwin-Williams paint family.

Wolcott Gibbs was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.

Wolcott Gibbs's widow died on July 30,1963, of burns she received in a fire at her New York home, 352 East 50th Street.