John Freeman Gill | Author | Journalist John Freeman Gill is a longtime New York Times contributor and author of The Gargoyle Hunters, published by Alfred A. Knopf, which was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. His writing has been anthologized in The New York Times Book of New York and More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of The New York Times. Gill is the architecture and real estate editor of Avenue magazine. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Observer, Washington Monthly, the International Herald Tribune, Premiere, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where he won two prizes and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he received an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. He lives in New York City with his wife, three children, and a smattering of gargoyles.