Gerald Walker (writer)
Gerald Robert Walker was an American magazine editor for The New York Times Magazine who was known for writing the 1970 novel Cruising, which was adapted into a controversial 1980 film of the same name directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino.Biography
Walker was born on April 16, 1928. He graduated from New York University and earned an MFA in theatre at Columbia University.
He worked as an articles editor for The New York Times Magazine from 1963 to 1990. Walker also wrote an annual anthology titled Best Magazine Articles from 1965 to 1967. At the time of his death, Walker was completing a mystery novel titled Witnesses.
He was married to Greta Markson, with whom he had a son, David, but their marriage ended in divorce. At the time of his death, Walker was married to Joanna Simon.
On February 19, 2004, Walker died of stroke complications at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.
