"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 bio...

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1. Verfasser:	Reading, Amy (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York ; Boston Mariner Books [2024]
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schlagworte:	White, Katharine Sergeant Angell > 1892-1977 The New Yorker > Zeitschrift, New York, NY, 1925- Geschichte White, Katharine Sergeant Angell New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) / History Women periodical editors / United States / Biography American literature / 20th century / History and criticism Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	"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 brings to life the remarkable relationships White fostered with her writers and how these relationships nurtured an astonishing array of literary talent. She edited a young John Updike, to whom she sent seventeenrejections before a single acceptance, as well as Vladimir Nabokov, with whom she fought incessantly, urging that he drop needlessly obscure, confusing words. White's biggest contribution, however, was her cultivation of women writers whose careers were made at THE NEW YORKER'S -Janet Flanner, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, Jean Stafford, Nadine Gordimer, Elizabeth Taylor, Emily Hahn, Kay Boyle, and more. She cleared their mental and financial obstacles, introduced them to each other, and helped them create now classic stories and essays. She propelled these women to great literary heights and, in the process, reinvented the role of the editor, transforming the relationship to be not just a way to improve a writer's work but also their life. Based on years of scrupulous research, acclaimed author Amy Reading creates a rare and deeply intimate portrait of a prolific editor-through both her incredible tenure at THE NEW YORKER'S, and her famous marriage to E.B. White-and reveals how she transformed our understanding of literary culture and community."
Beschreibung:	xv, 574 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781328595911