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Rick Gore (born Richard Gore) is a former American writer, science editor and Senior Assistant Editor for National Geographic. He is credited with nineteen cover stories with the magazine. Gore is also an executive producer of theatre and a playwright.

Early life

Gore was born to Jack Gore, a former Fort Lauderdale News editor, and mother Betty Gore. He is the younger brother of the late Christopher Gore, who wrote the screenplay for the 1980 musical film, Fame, receiving an Oscar nomination for the Best Original Screenplay.

Education

Gore attended Northwestern University and received his master's degree in journalism. He also completed the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford in 1988

Career

National Geographic

Before working for National Geographic, Gore was a reporter for Life magazine from 1969 to 1972. He joined the staff of National Geographic in 1974, where he remained until taking an early retirement in 2001.

Gore produced more than sixty feature articles, serving much of his career there as Science Editor and is credited with nineteen cover stories with the magazine.

Multiple articles were written by Gore on topics such as human evolution, for instance the August 2002 article titled "New Find", about the early expansions of hominins out of Africa. He also has written about several subjects on space such as the March 1981 article titled "When the Space Shuttle Finally Flies", about the first flight of the U.S. space shuttle orbiter.

Theatre

Following his brother's death in 1988 from AIDS, Gore diverted part time to theater, revising with composer David Spangler, Christopher Gore's 1977 musical Nefertiti. Several productions of Nefertiti resulted, in Key West, Chicago, Dayton, and a large scale production in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the Parker Playhouse in 2005.

Throughout this period Gore and Spangler also worked on an original musical, Surviving the Moonlight, that was based on eight songs Christopher Gore had written for an unfinished musical based on the French film classic, Children of Paradise. Surviving the Moonlight was produced in 2022 at Short North Stage where Gore is a founding member and executive producer. Short North Stage is a theatre in Columbus, Ohio.

Personal life

Gore was married to Mary Frances Whittier Gore in 1967. In 1990 Gore met his life partner Peter Yockel in Washington, D.C.. They were married in New York City in 2013.

Bibliography

Playwright

• Moore, Kevin (Director). (2005). Nefertiti by David Spangler, Rick Gore and Christopher Gore . Parker Playhouse, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• Spangler, David (Director). (2022). Surviving the Moonlight by Rick Gore . Short North Stage, Columbus, Ohio.

National Geographic cover stories

Gore has nineteen published articles featured on the cover of National Geographic.

Cover stories

#	Title	Year	About	Location	Ref
1	Sifting For Life in the Sands of Mars	1977	Viking program	Mars
2	Wild Nursery of the Mangroves	1977	Mangrove	Florida
3	The Desert: An Age-Old Challenge Grows	1979	Deserts	Global
4	Voyager Views Jupiter's Dazzling Realm	1980	Voyager program	Jupiter
5	Journey to China's Far West	1980	Chinese culture	China
6	When the Space Shuttle Finally Flies	1981	Space Shuttle Columbia	Florida
7	Saturn: Riddles of the Rings	1981	Voyager program	Saturn
8	The Once and Future Universe	1983	Universe	Outer space
9	The Dead Do Tell Tales at Vesuvius	1984	Mount Vesuvius	Italy
10	Our Restless Planet Earth	1985	Earth, water and fire	Global
11	The March Towards Extinction	1989	Extinction	Global
12	Between Monterey Tides	1990	Monterey Bay	California
13	Dinosaurs	1993	Dinosaurs	Global
14	Andrew Aftermath	1993	Hurricane Andrew	Louisiana  Florida
15	Neandertals	1996	Neandertals	Croatia
16	Wrath of the Gods	2000	Earthquakes	Turkey
17	Pharaohs of the Sun	2001	Akhenaten	Egypt
18	The First Pioneer?	2002	Expansion of hominins	Republic of Georgia
19	The Rise of Mammals	2003	Mammals	Global

Notes

a. In some issues of National Geographic, the cover story would have one title on the cover and a different title (with the same meaning) on the headline of the actual article, or the title may appear different on the table of contents. Titles represented in this list, are taken from the cover and the citation represents the title listed in the table of contents.

References

1. Zink, Jack (May 19, 1988). "Christopher Gore, Wrote 'Fame'". South Florida Sun Sentinel. Deerfield Beach, Florida. Retrieved June 18, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
2. ^ Grossberg, Michael (June 12, 2022). "Short North Stage co-founder keeps promise to late brother with 'Surviving the Moonlight'". The Columbus Dispatch. Columbus, Ohio. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
3. "Christopher Gore, 45, Screenwriter of 'Fame'". The New York Times. May 20, 1988. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
4. ^ "The Board". Short North Stage. Columbus, Ohio. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
5. "Class of 1988". Stanford University. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
6. ^ Farr, Jory (May 2013). "The Journey to the Stage". Short North Gazette. Columbus, Ohio. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
7. ^ "Archive". National Geographic.
8. ^ Gore, Rick (August 2002). "New Find". National Geographic. Vol. 202, no. 2. p. Ad31.
9. ^ Gore, Rick (January 1980). "What Voyager Saw: Jupiter's Dazzling Realm". National Geographic. Vol. 157, no. 1. p. 2.
10. Jones, Kenneth (March 6, 2006). "Nefertiti Musical Rises Again, This Time With Ohio's Human Race Theatre". Playbill. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
11. "Gore-Whittier". Fort Lauderdale News. Florida. December 24, 1967. Retrieved June 18, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
12. Gore, Rick (1977). "Sifting For Life in the Sands of Mars". National Geographic. Vol. 151, no. 1. p. 1.
13. Gore, Rick (May 1977). "Wild Nursery of the Mangroves". National Geographic. Vol. 151, no. 5. p. 668.
14. Gore, Rick (November 1979). "The Desert: An Age-Old Challenge Grows". National Geographic. Vol. 156, no. 5. p. 594.
15. Gore, Rick (March 1980). "Journey to China's Far West". National Geographic. Vol. 157, no. 3. p. 292.
16. Gore, Rick (March 1981). "When the Space Shuttle Finally Flies". National Geographic. Vol. 159, no. 3. p. 317.
17. Gore, Rick (July 1981). "Voyager I at Saturn: Riddles of the Rings". National Geographic. Vol. 160, no. 1. p. 3.
18. Gore, Rick (June 1983). "The Once and Future Universe". National Geographic. Vol. 163, no. 6. p. 704.
19. Gore, Rick (May 1984). "The Dead Do Tell Tales at Vesuvius". National Geographic. Vol. 165, no. 5. p. 557.
20. Gore, Rick (August 1985). "Our Restless Planet Earth". National Geographic. Vol. 168, no. 2. p. 142.
21. Gore, Rick (June 1989). "What Caused the Great Dyings?". National Geographic. Vol. 175, no. 6. p. 662.
22. Gore, Rick (February 1990). "Between Monterey Tides". National Geographic. Vol. 177, no. 2. p. 2.
23. Gore, Rick (January 1993). "Dinosaurs". National Geographic. Vol. 183, no. 1. p. 2.
24. Gore, Rick (April 1993). "Andrew Aftermath". National Geographic. Vol. 183, no. 4. p. 2.
25. Gore, Rick (January 1996). "Neandertals". National Geographic. Vol. 189, no. 1. p. 2.
26. Gore, Rick (July 2000). "Wrath of the Gods – Earthquake in Turkey – A History Forged in Disaster". National Geographic. Vol. 198, no. 1. p. 32.
27. Gore, Rick (April 2001). "Pharaohs of the Sun". National Geographic. Vol. 199, no. 4. p. 34.
28. Gore, Rick (April 2003). "The Rise of Mammals". National Geographic. Vol. 203, no. 4. p. 2.

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