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Katharine Sergeant Angell White (September 17, 1892 – July 20, 1977) was a writer and the fiction editor for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1960.
Feb 18, 1996 · Katharine White, who was Katharine Sergeant Angell at the beginning of her New Yorker career, had an editor’s life, too, and she knew that stories might not work and that writers might be...
Mr. White described his love affair with Katharine Sergeant Angell as "stormy." He added, "She was a divorced woman, but a conscientious mother with two children. I was six years younger than...
Name variations: Katharine S. Angell; Kay White. Born Katharine Sergeant in Winchester, Massachusetts, on September 17, 1892; died of heart failure in North Brooklin, Maine, on July 20, 1977; daughter of Charles Spencer Sergeant (a vice president of West End Railway Co., Boston) and Elizabeth Blake (Shepley) Sergeant; attended the Winsor School ...
CAREER: Writer and editor. The New Yorker, New York, NY, fiction editor, 1925-60. WRITINGS: (Editor with husband, E. B. White) A Subtreasury of American Humor, Coward-McCann, Inc. ( New York, NY), 1941.
A lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped build the magazine’s prestigious legacy and transform the 20th century literary landscape for women. In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker’s
Dates: 1949 - 1964. Found in: Bryn Mawr College. Katharine Sergeant White papers. Collection. Identifier: BMC-M56. Abstract Katharine Sergeant White, the first fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine, was born in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1892. In 1914, White graduated from Bryn Mawr College.
