Research topic: Frank Andrew Munsey

Frank Andrew Munsey , 1854-1925, American publisher and author, b. Mercer, Maine. In 1882 he quit a telegraph operator's job in Maine to begin a career as publisher in New York City. He started the Golden Argosy (1882) as a juvenile magazine, for which he wrote serials himself, changed it to the Argosy for adults, and supplanted this with Munsey's Magazine (1889). Munsey cut the price from 25 cents to 10 cents (1893), and the magazine became a success. He bought and sold newspapers and magazines with his fortune. When one of his magazines failed, he scrapped it and started another;... Read more