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The New Yorker was founded by Harold Ross (1892–1951) and his wife Jane Grant (1892–1972), a New York Times reporter, and debuted on February 21, 1925. Ross wanted to create a sophisticated humor magazine that would be different from perceivably "corny" humor publications such as Judge , where he had worked, or the old Life .
Deborah Treisman (born 1970) is the Fiction Editor for The New Yorker. [1] [2] Treisman also hosts craft conversations with The New Yorker short fiction contributors discussing their favorite stories from the magazine's archives in the Fiction podcast, and authors reading their own recently-published work in The Writer's Voice podcast.
Saul Bellow – writer (fiction and non-fiction), 2010 [7] Ludwig Bemelmans – artist, cover artist, writer; Nathaniel Benchley – writer, 1950; Robert Benchley (pseudonym: Guy Fawkes) – humorist and theatre critic, 1925–1940, 1956, 1993–1994 [8] Claire-Louise Bennett – fiction, 2022; Sally Benson - fiction; Charles Berberian ...
When Crack Was King was one of ten books named to the 2023 Longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. [24] " The titles on the list were selected from six hundred and thirty eight submissions from publishers," noted The New Yorker. [25]
Back in the 1980s, former HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins saw an opportunity in the nonfiction short format. “I was watching the Academy Awards one night and there was this ...
Griswold is currently a contributing writer to The New Yorker and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. She is the author of Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America , which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Ridenhour Book Prize in 2019, and which was a 2018 New York Times ...
Jason Brown [1] is an American fiction and nonfiction writer who writes primarily about Maine and New England. His work has appeared in magazines and anthologies including The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic,The Best American Short Stories , The Best American Essays , and The Pushcart Prize Anthology.
Joseph Quincy Mitchell (July 27, 1908 – May 24, 1996) was an American writer best known for his works of creative nonfiction he published in The New Yorker.His work primarily consists of character studies, where he used detailed portraits of people and events to highlight the commonplace of the world, especially in and around New York City.