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Personal life. Influences and legacy. In popular culture. References. William Shawn ( né Chon; August 31, 1907 – December 8, 1992) was an American magazine editor who edited The New Yorker from 1952 until 1987. Early life and education.
20 dic 1992 · During my first conversation with William Shawn, in 1974, he astonished me by extending an invitation to work for The New Yorker. I was twenty-three years old, a bright-green rookie, and far...
William Shawn was an American editor who headed The New Yorker (1952–87), shaping it into one of the most influential periodicals in the United States. Shawn left college after two years and briefly worked as a journalist and pianist before joining The New Yorker as a freelance writer (1933).
9 dic 1992 · William Shawn, the shy, strong-willed editor who ran The New Yorker for a third of this century, died yesterday morning at the apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan where he had lived...
25 giu 2012 · By John McPhee. June 25, 2012. Robert Gottlieb could read and critique a huge manuscript overnight. William Shawn deliberated: “It takes as long as it takes.” Roger Straus kept the author’s...
5 lug 2016 · Decorum was important to Shawn, even though the world was changing. Rachel MacKenzie, a fiction editor, rejected Philip Roth’s 40,000-word novella “Goodbye, Columbus” less because of its length—the magazine had just run J. D. Salinger’s 50,000-word “Zooey”—but, rather, because, as MacKenzie wrote, “taste would rule out here much of what is essential to the narrative.”
William Shawn. 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.
