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NEW YORKER, THE NEW YORKER, THE. Harold Ross (1892–1951) founded The New Yorker as a weekly magazine in New York City in 1925. Ross had quit high school to become a reporter, and during World War I he edited the Stars and Stripes, a military newspaper. The New Yorker was his attempt to... Read more
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Harold Wallace Ross 1892-1951, American editor, b. Aspen, Colo. He founded The New Yorker magazine in 1925 and was its influential managing editor until his death. Ross quit school at the age of 14 to work at the Salt Lake City Tribune. During World War I he edited Stars and Stripes in... Read more
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Shirley Hazzard 1931-, Australian novelist and short-story writer, b. Sydney. Educated in Australia, she has lived in the United States since 1951, working at the United Nations in New York from 1952-62. Both she and her husband, writer Francis Steegmuller (1906-94), were frequent contributors to ... Read more
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A. J. Liebling (Abbott Joseph Liebling), 1904-63, American journalist, b. New York City. He left Dartmouth, attended the Columbia School of Journalism, and wrote for the Providence, R.I. Evening Bulletin and several New York City newspapers before joining (1935) The New Yorker magazine, where... Read more
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Clampitt, Amy (1920–94), poet. A native of New Providence, Iowa, a region at the center of some of her richest verse, Clampitt graduated from Grinnell College. She describes herself as one of a “late blooming family.” In the later 1970s her poems began to be published in The New... Read more
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