Desmond Winter Hall was an author and magazine editor. Mr. Hall's writings included "I Give You Oscar Wilde" (New American Library, 1965), a novel about the 19th-century poet, wit and dramatist. Mr. Hall contributed articles and fiction, including science fiction, to The Atlantic, Esquire, The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. He also worked as a literary agent. He was an early editor of Mademoiselle magazine, and in the 1970's he acquired 16 Magazine, a monthly for teen-agers. He served in the Army Air Force in World War II. His 1935 marriage to Violet Pillault ended in divorce in 1943.