The world she edited : Katharine S. White at the New Yorker /
In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into THE NEW YORKER'S midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was only a few months old. Over the next thirty-six years, White would transform the publication into a literary powerhouse. This exquisite biography...
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New York :
Mariner Books,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: February 1953
- Part I: The family glamour (1892-1909)
- Part II: The new woman gets it all (1910-1925)
- Part III: Editing a humor weekly (1925-1929)
- Part IV: Editing a literary powerhouse (1930-1938)
- Part V: Interregnum (1938-1943)
- Part VI: The years of greatest influence (1943-1954)
- Part VII: The editor becomes a writer (1955-1960)
- Part VIII: Retirement on New Yorker stationery (1961-1977)
- Epilogue: Katharine S. White forgotten and remembered.