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 mol...
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"... 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 197...
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