| 词条 | Richard Gehman |
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BiographyGehman attended McCaskey High School in Lancaster, and worked on several daily newspapers in Lancaster before joining the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in World War II. He served four years as a writer for The Oak Ridge Times in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the war he moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and began freelancing for Esquire, Life, Time, Cosmopolitan, Colliers, Argosy, True, Saga, and The Saturday Evening Post magazines. Gehman was an original Contributing Editor at Playboy. Gehman's circle of friends included many well-known American writers, editors, painters, and actors, including Robert Frost, Joseph Heller, E.B. White, Roger Angell, Jackson Pollack, Diane Arbus, Howard Memerov, Estelle Parsons, Jerry Lewis, Maurice Zolotow, Charlotte Zolotow, Morton Thompson and Anthony Hecht, among others. Maurice Zolotow once claimed that Gehman wrote an entire issue of Cosmopolitan using more than a dozen different pen names; the truth is that Gehman wrote two or three of the principal articles for one issue, each under a different name, plus a record review under the name “Meghan Richards,” and possibly one other regular column. In those days Cosmopolitan used a graphic, diagonal cover banner to highlight special features. Cosmopolitan's editors had a mock-up cover made whose banner bore the legend: "The All Richard Gehman Issue." Mark Evanier describes Gehman as "a prominent author of his day, specializing in celebrity profiles. He often got access to follow stars around for a few weeks so he could interview them extensively and report on what he observed...." [3]Gehman was descended from the Christian Gehman, who arrived in what is now Pennsylvania in 1653. Gehman was the oldest of the four boys born to Martin Gehman, who fought in World War I, and Nellie Boyd. Gehman married five times. His third wife was Academy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons, from 1953 to 1958. His fourth wife, Betsy Holland Gehman, also a writer, is best known as the author of Twins: Twice the Trouble, Twice the Fun. His fifth wife, Marianne, was his high school sweetheart. Gehman fathered at least nine children. Along with several other bon vivants, Gehman was a "shadow member" of "The Rat Pack." Gehman appeared as himself in the Jerry Lewis movie The Patsy. Selected works:
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In the early 1960s, Gehman was hired by TV Guide magazine, for which he wrote many articles focused on celebrities. Gehman believed that creative people were often emotionally insecure because of an unhappy childhood, and that those who became celebrities in the entertainment industry sometimes did so because their insecurity motivated them to succeed.[4] By the late 1960s, however, demand for his kind of writing waned considerably as the flow of advertising revenue shifted from magazines to network television. His last years were spent in Lancaster, Pa, where he died in 1972. References1. ^Richard Gehman Papers at Millersville University {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gehman, Richard}}2. ^Richard Gehman Papers at Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College 3. ^Read More About It 4. ^p.33 Altschuler, Glenn C. & Grossvogel, David I. Changing Channels: America in TV Guide 199 University of Illinois Press 6 : 1921 births|1972 deaths|United States Army soldiers|American army personnel of World War II|20th-century American writers|20th-century American male writers |
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