What is Lawrence Van Gelder?
{{Infobox person | name = Lawrence Van Gelder | image = | birthname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|2|17}} | birth_place = [[New York City, New York]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|3|11|1933|2|17}} | death_place = New York, New York, U.S. | occupation = Editor, reporter, instructor in journalism | relatives = [[Richard Van Gelder]] (brother)<br>[[Gordon Van Gelder]] (nephew)<br>[[Leslie Van Gelder]] (niece)<br>[[Russell Van Gelder]] (nephew) | credits = ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[New York Journal-American]]'', ''[[New York Daily Mirror]]'' }} '''Lawrence Van Gelder''' (February 17, 1933 – March 11, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] journalist and instructor. He has worked at several different [[New York City]]-based newspapers in his long career. He was born in [[New York City]]. Until 2010, he was senior editor of the Arts and Leisure weekly section of ''[[The New York Times]]'' as well as a movie critic.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|title=Thinner (1996) Eat and Be Thin. What's the Catch?|author=Van Gelder, Lawrence|date=October 26, 1996|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990CE4D81E30F935A15753C1A960958260|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Among the newspapers for which Van Gelder has worked are the ''[[New York Daily Mirror]]'', the ''[[New York Journal-American]]'' and the ''[[World-Journal-Tribune]]''. Gelder died of [[leiomyosarcoma]] (soft muscle [[cancer]]) on March 11, 2016, aged 83.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/business/media/lawrence-van-gelder-critic-and-editor-at-the-times-dies-at-83.html Lawrence Van Gelder, Critic and Editor at The Times, Dies at 83], nytimes.com; accessed March 13, 2016.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gelder, Lawrence Van}} [[Category:1933 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from leiomyosarcoma]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in New York City]] [[Category:American movie critics]] [[Category:Journalists from New York City]] {{US-bio-stub}}