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Katherine Sproehnle
Katherine Margaret Sproehnle (September 30, 1894 – August 29, 1976) was an American writer, publicist, and journalist, a contributor to ''The New Yorker'', ''Woman's Day'', ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair'', ''Mademoiselle (magazine), Mademoiselle'', ''Collier's'', ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', and ''The Saturday Evening Post''. Early life and education Sproehnle was born in Chicago, the daughter of Albert William Sproehnle and Isabel Grace Kuh Sproehnle. Her father and brother were jewelers. Journalist Franklin P. Adams was her cousin. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1915. Career Sproehnle was a reporter for the ''Chicago Tribune'' after college. She worked with Edward Bernays in publicity, and at a bookstore owned by Fanny Butcher. After she moved to New York City, she was an occasional guest at the Algonquin Round Table gatherings. Sproehnle regularly contributed fiction, reviews, and humorous commentary to ''The New Yorker'', from the 1920s into the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York Times''. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards. ''The New Yorker''s fact-checking operation is widely recognized among journalists as one of its strengths. Although its reviews and events listings often focused on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' gained a reputation for publishing serious essays, long-form journalism, well-regarded fiction, and humor for a national and international audience, including work by writers such as Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and Alice Munro. In the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
