Glenn O'Brien (1947–2017)
Author of The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground
About the Author
Glenn O'Brien was born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 2, 1947. He attended Georgetown University, where he edited a student literary magazine entitled The Georgetown Journal, and studied film at Columbia University. In 1971, Andy Warhol hired him to work on and then edit the magazine Interview. He was show more the host of the public access television show TV Party from 1978 until 1982. He was an editor, art and music columnist, essayist, and poet. He wrote the Style Guy fashion advice column, which appeared in Details magazine and then in GQ, from 1999 to 2015. He also worked for Artforum, Oui, High Times, Maxim, Purple, Rolling Stone, Allure, and Harper's Bazaar. He wrote the books How to Be a Man: A Guide to Style and Behavior for the Modern Gentleman, Ruins with a View, and Like Art: Glenn O'Brien on Advertising. He edited Madonna's book Sex, wrote the play Drugs with Cookie Mueller, and was the screenwriter for Downtown 81. He was also a stand-up comedian, a creative director at Barneys New York, and an advertising copywriter including several of Calvin Klein television campaigns. In 2015, he started a new television talk show entitled Tea at the Beatrice. He died of pneumonia on April 7, 2017 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Glenn O'Brien
27TH OCT, 2012 09:29 PM IF YOU NEED ME I'LL BE IN THE 19TH CENTURY: selected tweets 2012/16 THE GLENN O'BRIEN PURPLE… (2016) 2 copies
Inez van Lamsweerde/Vinoodh Matadin. Pretty Much Everything by Glenn O'Brien (2013-10-25) (1753) 1 copy
Todd Eberle Hi-Fi 1 copy
Warhol's World 1 copy
Warhol, Wool, Guyton 1 copy
Visionaire Number 15 1 copy
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- 1947-03-02
- Date of death
- 2017-04-07
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Place of death
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Education
- Georgetown University
- Organizations
- Interview
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- Works
- 36
- Also by
- 6
- Members
- 325
- Popularity
- #72,884
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 36
- Languages
- 2
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