Bryant McGill is an author, poet and celebrity consultant. He is a trusted confidant and friend to numerous top personalities, and he and his company, McGill International, professionally consult for Fortune 500 companies, "A List" Hollywood movie stars, popular TV and film personalities, famous authors, musicians and other highly-visible professional entertainers world-wide. McGill is the co-founder, with celebrity entertainer Jim Karol, of the Gift Givers Foundation charity. His personal website has drawn over a million visitors, and over 50 thousand people regularly tune in to his blogs and newsletters.
McGill is the editor and author of the internationally award-winning McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme, which is used by over one-hundred-thousand writers, educators, students, aspiring poets and songwriters from over 100 countries. His McGill Reference Series also includes: Poet's Muse: Associative Reference for Writer's Block (ISBN 1-4116-2468-8); the McGill English Thesaurus for Poets; and the McGill English Dictionary for Poets. In 2004, McGill also released his contextual work of verse, observations, art, photography and sculptures, Existence (ISBN 1-4116-2154-9). McGill is the editor of The American Review literary journal, and presently reads submissions for a number of literary organizations.
In 1993, McGill received positive commentaries on his work from the 1976 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature and Pulitzer Prize Recipient, Dr. Saul Bellow of Boston University. And in 2005, McGill's poetry was positively reviewed by Dr. Shirley McPhillips, the co-director of the Teacher's College, Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, New York. McGill's poetic works continue to receive positive commentaries from a notable cast of distinguished individuals such as actor Michael Douglas, Ed McMahon, Bob Hope, Jules Archer and many others. McGill's own commentaries on poetry have been published at West Chester University in collections with major poets Billy Collins, Robert Frost, and Robert Pinsky. In 2004, McGill was nominated for induction into the Poetry Project's "Contemporary Poets Hall of Fame," which seeks to document the lives and works of significant contemporary poets, and which is sponsored by ibiblio, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication UNC-CH. In 2005, McGill was the "Featured Poet of the Month" in the December issue (ISSN 1744-3776) of the Poet's Letter Magazine (London). He was co-featured with Todd Swift, Canada's leading poet of his generation.
McGill's inspirational writings and quotes have reached millions, having been used in hundreds of speeches, books, articles and websites by other authors around the world. His writings have been featured alongside Nobel Prize Laureates Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa and Albert Schweitzer at the prestigious Foundation for a Better Life, whose award-winning public service announcements are seen on TV over 2 million times per day on over 900 stations. His works on human nature are frequently quoted by organizations such as MacKenzie International, Elite Business Communications and by America's Top Business Communications Expert, Meryl Runion of Speak Strong. His work has appeared in numerous venues such as Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (ISSN 002-2157), BBC Arts (UK), Stanford University, Poet's Letter Magazine (ISSN 1744-3776), and The Writers Voice. In 2005, his work appeared in the Southeast's largest newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, when he was invited to write an essay for their feature entitled, Saturdays in the South, which is a collection of exclusive essays written by famous Southerners including James Carville, Astronaut Dr. Norm Thagard, Dr. James Merritt, General B.B. Bell, Rick Bragg, John Alex Floyd, Nikki Giovanni, Warren St. John, George Singleton, Sharyn McCrumb, and John Jakes. In 2006, McGill was the subject of a front-page story in the world's largest international newspaper, the Wall Street Journal.
McGill's biography has been profiled in the 22nd and 23rd editions of Marquis Who's Who in the World, (ISBN 0-8379-1133-8), and the 60th and 61st Editions of Who's Who in America (ISBN 0-8379-6990-5), which the New York Times just recently hailed as the "...venerable guide to American achievement." McGill was also one of only 4,000 persons in the world to be featured in the 2005 edition of the Cambridge Blue Book and the 33rd edition of the Dictionary of International Biography published by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England. He is listed as a figure of note in The Celebrity Black Book: 2005 Edition (ISBN 0-9707095-3-6), The Ultimate Celebrity Address & Phone Book (ISBN 1-4116-1753-3), 2006 CBB Celebrity Addresses (ISBN 0-9707-0957-9) and countless other autograph references. His interviews, writings and sites have been featured in Men Celebs, Starbuzz, Celebrity Guide, The World Village and The Biography Center.
Bryant McGill studied briefly under scholar M. Newman, who was a poetic protégé and friend of the eminent W.H. Auden, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and the contributing editor of the Paris Review responsible for the famous Auden interview of 1974. McGill's poetic direction was further guided by American Academy of Arts and Letters inductee and founding Editor of the Paris Review, the late George Plimpton, who McGill met through his mentor. Later, McGill continued his studies with several years of private tutelage under Dr. Allan W. Eckert, an Emmy Award-winning naturalist and intellectual, and seven-time Pulitzer Prize nominated author of over 40 books. In 1998, during the commencement ceremony for the Adam Smith University graduating class of 1998, Dr. Bryant Harrison McGill, LHD, was presented with an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters for "his extraordinary scope, and his dedication to human understanding in his community, the nation, and the world." McGill's Doctorate in Humanities was presented by Dr. Donald Grunewald, Ph.D., who earned his master's and doctorate in education from Harvard University, is the former President of Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, NY, and who presently teaches at Iona College located in New Rochelle, New York. McGill is presently working on several book projects and he lives and writes privately in his mountain view home with his wife of over ten years and their two daughters.
