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 senior editor of the Arts and Leisure weekly section of The New York Times, as well as a film critic.
[1] 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.
[3] Lawrence Van Gelder died of leiomyosarcoma on March 11, 2016, aged 83.