Lawrence Van Gelder

Lawrence Ralph Van Gelder was an American journalist and instructor in journalism who worked at several different New York City-based newspapers in his long career. Until 2010, he was a senior editor of the Arts and Leisure weekly section of The New York Times, as well as a film critic. Among the newspapers for which Van Gelder worked were the New York [Daily Mirror], the New York Daily News, the New York World-Telegram and Sun and the World-Journal-Tribune.
Biologist Richard Van Gelder was his brother and Gordon Van Gelder, the editor and publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy & [Science Fiction], a nephew. Van Gelder graduated from Columbia University in 1953. He began working at the Times in May 1967.
Lawrence Van Gelder died of leiomyosarcoma on March 11, 2016, aged 83.