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poet, editor, biographer, novelist. Henderson, born in Baltimore and son of the foregoing Henderson, continued the family tradition of poetry and published several volumes of graceful, sincere verse: Life's Minstrel […]

editor, essayist. Farley was a pioneer in the idea that workingmen and workingwomen are entitled to culture as well as better wages and living conditions. Born in New Hampshire in […]

educator, editor, author. Herzberg was a teacher and principal in the Newark, New Jersey, school system for forty-four years and the editor of The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature […]

publisher, editor, geographer. Hale, a nephew of NATHAN HALE [1], bought the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1814, edited it till 1854, and made it an influential paper. He was one […]

editor, writer. Willis, born in Maine, won some celebrity while still at Yale, becoming known as a skillful writer of prose and verse. Soon after leaving Yale he began editing […]

poet, anthologist. Williams, born in New York City, was educated in Brooklyn public schools. For a number of years he was a successful advertising man, but abandoned advertising to write […]

newspaperman, editor, writer. Van Gelder was born in Baltimore and worked for two Connecticut papers before joining the staff of the New York Times. He was editor of the Times […]

planter, lawyer, printer, editor, poet, essayist. Turner, from the printing press at his Turnwold Plantation in Georgia, the state of his birth, published the only magazine ever issued on a […]

editor, biographer. A native of Camden, New Jersey, and a friend of WALT WHITMAN , Traubel was deeply influenced by the poet. As a youth he worked as a newsboy, […]

poet, editor, actor, newspaperman. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Towne began selling verses to magazines by the time he was seventeen, and served on the staff of various magazines--The Designer, The […]

editor, author. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Todd came to Amherst in 1879 when her husband was appointed a professor of astronomy at Amherst. She became acquainted with Emily Dickinson and […]

editor. Tilton, born in New York City, is remembered chiefly for his suit against HENRY WARD BEECHER , in which he charged adultery with Mrs. Tilton. From 1883 on he […]

librarian, editor, historian. Born in Massachusetts, Thwaites in his youth worked as a Wisconsin farmer, teacher, and a reporter on the Oshkosh Times. After attending Yale, he became managing editor […]

biographer, editor, poet, essayist, playwright, critic. Thompson is best remembered as the editor of the magazine M'LLE NEW YORK . He and JAMES HUNEKER , his fellow editor, introduced to […]

teacher, literary historian, editor. Spiller, born in Philadelphia, taught at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania. An authority on American literature, he was one of four editors of The Literary […]

clergyman, professor, editor. Born in Connecticut, Sparks was a student, professor, and finally president (1849) of Harvard. Under his leadership as editor (1817-1819) and owner-editor (1823-1829), the NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW […]

editor, journalist. Snow was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Red Star Over China (1938), a firsthand report of rising Communist power in China, established Snow's reputation. People on Our Side […]

editor, humorist. Born in Maine and educated at Bowdoin, Smith knew Maine's villages and people. After founding the Portland Courier in 1829, he began to contribute letters under the pen […]

bookseller, publisher, editor, writer. Shay, born in New Jersey, owned bookshops in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts, and organized Frank Shay's Traveling Bookshop. Deeply interested in the stage, he […]

newspaperwoman, editor, poet, writer of juveniles. Sangster's name was associated as editor or subeditor with many important magazines of her time, including Hearth and Home, the Christian Intelligencer, Harper's Young […]

editor, reformer, literary critic. Ripley, born in Massachusetts, was educated at Harvard and taught mathematics there while attending the Divinity School. He became a Unitarian minister in Boston. For fifteen […]

newspaperman, editor. Prentice, born in Connecticut, was the first editor of the New England Review, published at Hartford; later he edited the Louisville Daily Journal, which became the Louisville Courier-Journal. […]

editor, social critic. After becoming editor of Commentary in 1960, Podhoretz modified its editorial stance to reflect his neoconservative views. His essays were collected in Doings and Undoings: The Fifties […]

editor, biographer, literary historian. Pierce, born in Ontario, received degrees in theology and letters from various Canadian and American universities, was ordained in 1916, and became editor-in-chief of the Ryerson […]

editor, writer. On winning a short-story competition, Pier, born in Pittsburgh, abandoned his studies of law for an editorial position with the YOUTH'S COMPANION . He was also editor of […]

editor, publisher, poet, novelist. Like his cousin CHARLES JACOBS PETERSON , Henry Peterson, born in Philadelphia, was an important figure in the magazine world of that city. He was on […]

editor, historian, novelist, publisher. Peterson was a powerful figure in the literary life of his native city, Philadelphia, when it was at the height of its prosperity as a publishing […]

editor, publisher. Perkins, born in New York City, became vicepresident and editor-in-chief of Charles Scribner's Sons. Perkins had the insight to encourage new writers, such as Lardner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and […]

editor, author, critic. Oursler, born in Baltimore, was a versatile writer who wrote successful detective stories under the pen name Anthony Abbot and wrote many plays and movie scenarios, including […]

editor, novelist, autobiographer. In 1911 O'Brien, born in Chicago, founded the magazine Art, serving as editor from 1911 to 1914. From 1928 to 1932 he was literary editor of the […]

editor, writer. O'Brien, born in Dunkirk, New York, was city editor of the Buffalo Express, editor of the New York Sun, secretary to the Mayor of New York City, and […]

dime novelist, editor. In addition to editing anthologies and popularizations such as Half-Hours with the Best American Authors (4 v. 1887), Tales from the Dramatists (4 v. 1893), and Famous […]

poet, critic, editor. Born in Ireland, Monahan began as a journalist in Albany, New York, at age twenty-two. His early verses were collected in Youth and Other Poems (1895). He […]

physical culturist, editor. Born in Missouri, Macfadden, an astonishing personality, furnished reading matter, advice, and stimulation to millions. He advocated a number of physical and dietary cults, which others called […]

editor, publisher. The most influential editor of his era, McClure, who was born in Ireland, came to the United States in 1866 with his mother and three brothers to join […]

novelist, editor, short-story writer. Born in Michigan and educated at Kenyon College and the University of Iowa, Macauley taught at Kenyon, edited the Kenyon Review (1959-66), became fiction editor of […]

editor, critic, writer. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Yale, Lynes served as Director of Publications at Vassar College and principal at the Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, before becoming […]

teacher, clergyman, newspaper editor. Born in Albion, Maine, Lovejoy went to St. Louis and founded The Observer, which fought both slavery and intemperance. His strong views on lynching aroused so […]

lawyer, clergyman, college administrator, editor, writer. Born in Augusta, Georgia, Longstreet was educated at Yale and the Litchfield Law School. He was a judge and a clergyman; a president of […]

teacher, lecturer, editor, radio commentator, columnist, essayist. Lerner, who was born in Russia, has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Harvard, Brandeis, and Williams; he helped edit the Encyclopedia of the Social […]

editor, political controversialist, teacher, poet, short-story writer. Although Legett was born in New York City, for a time his family lived in a pioneer settlement on the Illinois prairies. Leggett […]

maker of almanacs, editor. He compiled Leavitt's Farmer's Almanack (1797-1851), occasionally varying the title, and edited the New Hampshire Register […]

poet, biographer, editor. Born in Honolulu, Lathrop founded the American Copyright League in 1883, was editor of the Boston Sunday Courier and associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He wrote […]

poet, editor, critic, literary historian. Born in New York City, Kreymborg has been called a patron saint of the modern little magazine movement. ( See LITTLE MAGAZINES .) He founded […]

printer, publisher, editor, poet, writer of religious tracts. Keimer was an eccentric, the author of A Brand Pluck'd from the Burning and A Search After Religion (both 1718). In 1722 […]

editor, publisher. Born in Boston and educated at Harvard, Hunt went to Lexington, Kentucky, where he founded two magazines, among the earliest to be established in the West: The Western […]

public relations counselor, editor, publisher. Born in Massachusetts, Hough with his wife, Elizabeth Wilson Hough, in 1920 took over publication of the Vineyard Gazette at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard. His best […]

editor, poet, playwright, actor. Born in Boston, Hill abandoned the study of law to become the editor of two Boston periodicals, published The Harvest Festival and Other Poems (1826), and […]

editor, poet. Much of Hersey's verse is set in his native Montana. Among his collections are Gestures in Ivory (1919), Cylinders (1925), Singing Rawhide (1926), Bubble and Squeak (1927), and […]

poet, editor, writer. Henderson, born in St. Louis, was a poet of originality and charm and published three collections of verse: The Spinning Woman of the Sky (1912), Red Earth […]