MAGAZINE

Established 1925 by Harold W. Ross. A 19th century magazine, established (twice) by Horace Greeley, has no relation. Acquired by Condé Nast in 1985.

Official Website:
http://www.newyorker.com/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Diane Ackerman	Author	7-Oct-1948		A Natural History of the Senses
Charles Addams	Cartoonist	7-Jan-1912	29-Sep-1988	The Addams Family
Renata Adler	Journalist	19-Oct-1938		Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker
Peter Arno	Cartoonist	8-Jan-1904	22-Feb-1968	The New Yorker
Ken Auletta	Columnist	23-Apr-1942		Media Columnist
Richard Avedon	Photographer	13-May-1923	1-Oct-2004	Photographer of the human predicament
Robert Benchley	Author	15-Sep-1889	21-Nov-1945	Humorist and screenwriter
Louise Bogan	Poet	11-Aug-1897	4-Feb-1970	The New Yorker poetry critic
Kay Boyle	Author	19-Feb-1902	27-Dec-1992	The Underground Woman
Charles Brackett	Screenwriter	26-Nov-1892	9-Mar-1969	Billy Wilder's collaborator
Harold Brodkey	Novelist	25-Oct-1930	26-Jan-1996	Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
David Brooks	Columnist	11-Aug-1961		Conservative pundit
Tina Brown	Editor	21-Nov-1953		Powerhouse magazine editor
James M. Cain	Novelist	1-Jul-1892	27-Oct-1977	The Postman Always Rings Twice
Truman Capote	Novelist	30-Sep-1924	25-Aug-1984	In Cold Blood
Alexander Chancellor	Editor	4-Jan-1940		Editor of The Spectator, 1975-84
Steve Coll	Journalist	8-Oct-1958		Ghost Wars
Walter J. P. Curley	Business	17-Sep-1922		US Ambassador to France, 1989-93
Peter De Vries	Novelist	27-Feb-1910	28-Sep-1993	The Tunnel of Love
Eldon Dedini	Cartoonist	29-Jun-1921	12-Jan-2006	Playboy, New Yorker cartoonist
Joan Didion	Author	5-Dec-1934		Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Elizabeth Drew	Journalist	16-Nov-1935		The New Yorker
Caitlin Flanagan	Author	?		Antifeminist
Janet Flanner	Journalist	13-Mar-1892	7-Nov-1978	The New Yorker
Steven Florio	Publisher	19-Apr-1949	27-Dec-2007	CEO of Condé Nast, 1995-2005
Jonathan Franzen	Author	17-Aug-1959		The Corrections
William Gaddis	Novelist	29-Dec-1922	16-Dec-1998	A Frolic of His Own
Malcolm Gladwell	Columnist	3-Sep-1963		The Tipping Point
Jeffrey Goldberg	Journalist	22-Sep-1965		Atlantic Monthly
Seymour Hersh	Journalist	8-Apr-1937		Uncovered the My Lai Massacre
Hendrik Hertzberg	Publisher	1943		The New Yorker
Syd Hoff	Author	4-Sep-1912	12-May-2004	Danny and the Dinosaur
Helen Hokinson	Cartoonist	29-Jun-1893	1-Nov-1949	Cartoonist for The New Yorker
Charlayne Hunter-Gault	TV Personality	27-Feb-1942		NPR, NewsHour reporter
Garrison Keillor	Radio Personality	7-Aug-1942		A Prairie Home Companion
Jamaica Kincaid	Novelist	25-May-1949		Annie John
Joe Klein	Journalist	7-Sep-1946		Anonymous author of Primary Colors
Jonah Lehrer	Author	25-Jun-1981		Imagine: How Creativity Works
A. J. Liebling	Journalist	18-Oct-1904	28-Dec-1963	The New Yorker
Dwight Macdonald	Critic	24-Mar-1906	19-Dec-1982	Against the American Grain
Janet Malcolm	Journalist	1934		The Journalist and the Murderer
Terrence Malick	Film Director	30-Nov-1943		Badlands
Reginald Marsh	Artist	14-Mar-1898	3-Jul-1954	Why Not Use the L?
William Maxwell	Novelist	16-Aug-1908	31-Jul-2000	The Folded Leaf
Bill McKibben	Activist	8-Dec-1960		The End of Nature
John McPhee	Author	8-Mar-1931		Annals of the Former World
Ved Mehta	Author	21-Mar-1934		Face to Face
Louis Menand	Critic	21-Jan-1952		The Metaphysical Club
Joseph Mitchell	Author	27-Jul-1908	24-May-1996	The New Yorker
Howard Moss	Poet	22-Jan-1922	16-Sep-1987	Finding Them Lost
Lewis Mumford	Historian	19-Oct-1895	26-Jan-1990	Technics and Civilization
Susan Orlean	Author	31-Oct-1955		The Orchid Thief
George Packer	Author	1960		The Assassins' Gate
Dorothy Parker	Author	22-Aug-1893	7-Jun-1967	Constant Reader known for acerbic quips
S. J. Perelman	Author	1-Feb-1904	17-Oct-1979	New Yorker humorist
Charles Portis	Author	28-Dec-1933		True Grit
David Remnick	Editor	29-Oct-1958		Editor of The New Yorker
Harold W. Ross	Publisher	6-Nov-1892	6-Dec-1951	Founder of The New Yorker
Simon Schama	Historian	13-Feb-1945		Landscape and Memory
William Shawn	Journalist	31-Aug-1907	8-Dec-1992	Editor of The New Yorker, 1952-87
Art Spiegelman	Cartoonist	15-Feb-1948		Maus
William Steig	Cartoonist	14-Nov-1907	3-Oct-2003	Shrek, The New Yorker
Robert Lewis Taylor	Novelist	24-Sep-1912	30-Sep-1998	The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
James Thurber	Author	8-Dec-1894	2-Nov-1961	Short story writer and cartoonist
Jeffrey Toobin	Attorney	21-May-1960		CNN Senior Legal Analyst
Calvin Trillin	Comic	5-Dec-1935		Humorist
John Updike	Novelist	18-Mar-1932	27-Jan-2009	Rabbit, Run
E. B. White	Author	11-Jul-1899	01-Oct-1985	Charlotte's Web
Edmund Wilson	Author	8-May-1895	12-Jun-1972	Axel's Castle
James Wolcott	Journalist	10-Dec-1952		Vanity Fair cultural critic
Alexander Woollcott	Critic	18-Jan-1887	23-Jan-1943	The Man Who Came to Dinner
Lawrence Wright	Author	2-Aug-1947		The Looming Tower

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