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Arthur and Barbara Gelb in Dublin in the mid-1990s.
Gelb Personal Collection; thumbnail, Gene Maggio/The New York Times, 1983
Barbara Gelb
Died on February 9, 2017 at age 91
Ms. Gelb was an author and a journalist who, with her husband, Arthur Gelb, a top New York Times editor, produced the first full-scale biography of the playwright Eugene O’Neill, then followed it decades later with two volumes that reconsidered his life.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.