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How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else is a memoir by Michael Gates Gill that chronicles his journey from a high-level advertising executive with J. Walter Thompson to a barista at Starbucks. [1] The book has been optioned by Tom Hanks for a film; [2] filmmaker Gus Van Sant has also been in talks to ...
The son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, Michael Gates Gill was a creative director at J.Walter Thompson Advertising, where he was employed for over twenty-five years. He lives in New York within walking distance of the Starbucks store where he works (Bronxville) and prior at Ninety-third and Broadway Starbucks store.
Michael J. Gill (horseman), American Thoroughbred racehorse owner; Michael Joseph Gill (1864–1918), American politician from Missouri; Michael Henry Gill, co-founder of the Irish publisher Gill; Michael Gates Gill, American author of How Starbucks Saved My Life; Michel Gill (born 1960), also known as Michael Gill, American actor
The Boozer Challenge is a fiction book by author Charles Gill, son of famed New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, [1] and brother of Michael Gates Gill, who wrote How Starbucks Saved My Life. [2] The Boozer Challenge was published in 1987, by Dutton. [1] [3] [4]
Artemus Lamb Gates (1918), businessman, US Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air [69] Robert A. Lovett (1918), US Secretary of Defense [3]: 184–8 [74] Charles J. Stewart (1918), first chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company [75] Charles Phelps Taft II (1918), son of President William Howard Taft, Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio [76]
The marriage was dissolved in 1974, and Michael remarried in 1978 to Georgina Denison, with whom he had a daughter, Chloe. [1] [3] Nicholas Gill disappeared in 1998. [3] In 2000, Gill was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died from sepsis and bronchopneumonia at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 20 October 2005, aged 81. [1]
Gill is a first generation American born to Jewish parents who escaped the Holocaust. [2] Gill's first language was French. He studied at Aiglon College, a prestigious boarding school in Switzerland. After Aiglon, he attended Tufts University before transferring and graduating from the Juilliard School in 1985 (Group 14). [3] [4]
In 1856, Michael Henry Gill, printer for Dublin University, purchased the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, and the company was renamed McGlashan & Gill. In 1875, it was renamed M.H. Gill & Son. In 1968, the company became associated with the London based Macmillan Publishers (founded 1843) and Gill & Macmillan was ...