John Freeman Gill, a native New Yorker and longtime contributor to The New York Times, has written for a broad range of publications,
including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Premiere and The New York Observer. His writing has received favorable
attention in Vanity Fair and The Daily Beast and has been anthologized in The New York Times Book of New York and in the new
collection More New York Stories: The Best of the
City Section of The New York Times. He has written more than 150 articles for the Times, including 30 cover features and cover columns for
various sections.
John is currently at work on a novel about the high adventure and hazard of architectural salvage in the crumbling
Manhattan of the 1970s, a subject he has explored in a literary feature in The Atlantic and on WNYC's
"Leonard Lopate Show," as well as in an essay in The
Times. An action screenplay he wrote for director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) was optioned by Propaganda Films and is being developed
into a major motion picture by Paramount. John received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence and a BA from Yale, where he graduated summa cum laude, was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and won two writing prizes.
