Donald Edward Gastwirth, American Entertainment
Intellectual property
lawyer, literary agent. member board advisors Yale Literature Magazine, 1987-1994, Touchstone Magazine, 1990-1995, 98.
Background
Gastwirth, Donald Edward was born on August 7, 1944 in New York City. Son of Paul and Tillie (Scheinert) G. Bachelor, Yale University, 1966, Juris Doctor, 1974. Bar: Connecticut 1979, United States District Court Connecticut 1981.
Member advertising staff New Yorker magazine, New York City, 1967-1968.
Education
Bachelor, Yale University, 1966. Juris Doctor, Yale University, 1974.
Career
Member advertising staf New Yorker magazine, New York City, 1967-1968. Vice president Reader's Press, New Haven, 1968-1974, director, 1968-1975. Executive vice president Mainstream television Studio, 1974-1977, director, 1974-1979.
President Quasar Associates, 1979-1989. Account executive Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc., 1977-1979. Partner Gastwirth, McMillan & Still, 1981-1984.
President Don Gastwirth & Associates Literary Agency, since 1984. Adjunct professor law Thomas Jefferson School Law, 1996-1999. Lecturer in field; advisor fund raising, member benefit committee John Steinbeck Literature Project, 1986-1994.
Associate fellow Trumbull College, Yale University, since 1991.
Membership
Trustee Yale Center for Parliamentary History, 1995-2002. Board directors Chancel Opera Company Connecticut, 2003-2006, New Haven Downtown Soup Kitchen, 2004-2006. Member board advisors Endowment for Middle East Truth, since 2005.
Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Writers Association, American Bar Association, Federalist Society, Writers Guild American, Berzelius Society, Lambs Club (New York ), Yale Club (New Haven), Elizabethan Club.