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Gael Greene Husband: Who was Gael Greene Married to?

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Mia Horton

Published Feb 13, 2026

Gael Greene was a restaurant critic, author, and novelist from the United States. In 1961, she married Donald H. Forst.

Donald H. Forst was an editor of New York Newsday and The Village Voice. After 13 years, they divorced. Her only immediate survivor is her brother, James Greene.

She became New York magazine’s restaurant critic in the fall of 1968, at a time when most New Yorkers were clueless about food and few chefs were known by name, and for four decades she both documented and inspired the city’s and America’s growing obsession with food. She was a trailblazer “foodie.

Gael Greene, created memorable articles such as “Everything You Wanted to Know About Ice Cream But Were Too Fat to Ask

Gael Greene, died on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, at her home in a Manhattan assisted living facility.

Gael Greene was 88 years old. She died from cancer was the cause, according to her niece Dana Sachs Stoddard.