One hundred years ago this week, The New Yorker published its first issue. A few months later, the magazine’s first (and for decades, only) female editor joined the staff. Katharine S. White spent the better part of the next 50 years wielding her pen and her editorial influence there, carefully tending to an ever-growing stable of talented (sometimes high-maintenance) writers and shaping the magazine into a cultural powerhouse. Biographer Amy Reading joins us to discuss White’s life, legacy and undeniable importance in the history of 20th-century American letters.
Mentioned in this episode:
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker by Amy Reading
Katharine and E.B. White’s farm in Blue Hill, Maine
St. Nicholas magazine
American Heritage article on St. Nicholas magazine
Women authors discovered/edited by Katharine White
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 187 on Kay Boyle
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 184 on Elizabeth Taylor
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 158 on Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 168 on Mary McCarthy
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 131 on Dorothy Parker
The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con by Amy Reading
About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Madeby Ben Yagoda
Amy Reading’s “Open Book” Substack
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