Katharine S. White — Shaping The New Yorker, with Amy Reading

Send us a text 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 S. White Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant E.B. White 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 Henry Seidel Canby Fillmore Hyde Support the show For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast