"... he has become famous by eschewing fame and is today one of the best-known unknown men in the country." Thus was William Shawn, editor of the New Yorker for thirty-five years, characterized in 1975 by his longtime associate Brendan Gill. While...
During a career with the New Yorker magazine that spanned more than 50 years, William Shawn (1907-1992) shaped its distinctive content and style, influencing writers across the U.S. and helping to mold public opinion on important issues of the day....
William Shawn (August 31, 1907 – December 8, 1992) was an American magazine editor who edited The New Yorker from 1952 until 1987. "Mr. Shawn," as he was nearly always known, was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Benjamin W. and Anna (Bransky)...
Portland Press Herald (Maine) 09-27-2001 Portland Press Herald (Maine) Thursday, September 27, 2001 Edition: Final Section: Local & State Page: 11B BANGOR-- William Shawn Walsh, 46, died Sept. 24, 2001, of kidney cancer. He was born in White Plains, N.Y., a son...
That The New Yorker has become a sacred cow for the American mainstream as well as for the cultural elite has just been demonstrated by the top-priority treatment given by the press to Tina Brown's departure from the magazine and S. I. Newhouse's subsequent...
General Forrest Harding's house in Franklin, Ohio, is preserved as it was before his death in 1970, and it is a museum of disappointment. Musty evening wear fills the closet, a shrunken military tunic hangs from a stand. Hidden away in the drawers can be...
In 1957, when Spark was 39 and unknown, someone at the English publisher Hamish Hamilton sent along to a friend at The New Yorker a startling story that had lately been published (in a magazine called Botteghe Oscure) by an unknown called Muriel Spark. "The...
