Lawrence Ralph Van Gelder (February 17, 1933 – March 11, 2016) 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 ofThe New York Times, as well as a film critic.^[1] Among the newspapers for which Van Gelder worked were theNew York Daily Mirror, theNew York Daily News, theNew York World-Telegram and Sun and theWorld-Journal-Tribune.

BiologistRichard Van Gelder was his brother andGordon Van Gelder, the editor and publisher ofThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, a nephew. Van Gelder graduated fromColumbia University in 1953^[2] (Columbia College (New York) andColumbia Law School). He began working at theTimes in May 1967.^[3]

Lawrence Van Gelder died ofleiomyosarcoma on March 11, 2016, aged 83.^[3]

• Lawrence Van Gelder collected news and commentary atThe New York Times

• 1933 births
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• 20th-century American male journalists
• American people of Dutch descent
• Columbia Law School alumni
• The New York Times editors
• Deaths from cancer in New York (state)
• Deaths from leiomyosarcoma
• 20th-century American journalists
• Columbia College, Columbia University alumni

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