Charles M. Schulz, B. Tobey, Pete Wyma and
Bill Yates. The magazine ran
Ted Key's cartoon panel series ''
Hazel'' from 1943 to 1969.
Literature
Each issue featured several original short stories and often included an installment of a serial appearing in successive issues. Most of the fiction was written for mainstream tastes by popular writers, but some literary writers were featured. The opening pages of stories featured paintings by the leading magazine illustrators.
The ''Post'' published stories and essays by
H. E. Bates
Herbert Ernest Bates (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974), better known as H. E. Bates, was an English writer. His best-known works include ''Love for Lydia'', '' The Darling Buds of May'', and ''My Uncle Silas''.
Early life
H.E. Bates was ...
,
Ray Bradbury
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,
Kay Boyle,
Agatha Christie,
Brian Cleeve
Brian Brendon Talbot Cleeve (22 November 1921 – 11 March 2003) was a writer, whose published works include twenty-one novels and over a hundred short stories. He was also an award-winning broadcaster on RTÉ television. Son of an Irish father ...
,
Eleanor Franklin Egan
Eleanor Franklin Egan (April 28, 1879 — January 17, 1925) was an American journalist and foreign correspondent for the ''Saturday Evening Post''.
Early life
Bertha Eleanor Pedigo was born in 1879 (some sources give 1877), the daughter of Henry ...
,
William Faulkner,
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
C. S. Forester,
Ernest Haycox
Ernest James Haycox (October 1, 1899 – October 13, 1950) was an American writer of Western fiction.
Biography
Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon, to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt on October 1, 1899.Corning, Howard M. ( ...
,
Robert A. Heinlein,
Kurt Vonnegut,
Paul Gallico,
Normand Poirier,
Hammond Innes,
Louis L'Amour,
Sinclair Lewis,
Joseph C. Lincoln
Joseph Crosby Lincoln (February 13, 1870 – March 10, 1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod.
Biography
Lincoln was born in 1870 in Brewster, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, and his ...
,
John P. Marquand
John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for '' ...
,
Edgar Allan Poe
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,
Mary Roberts Rinehart,
Sax Rohmer,
William Saroyan,
John Steinbeck,
Rex Stout,
Rob Wagner,
Edith Wharton, and
P.G. Wodehouse
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.
Poetry published came from poets including:
Carl Sandburg
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,
Ogden Nash
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by ''The New York Times'' the country's best ...
,
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
From a conflicted and unhap ...
, and
Hannah Kahn
Hannah Kahn (1911–1988) was an American poet, born in New York City, and subsequently a longtime resident of Miami, Florida. She was known especially for her inspirational poem "Ride a Wild Horse."
Biography
Hannah quit school at the age of ...
.
Jack London
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's best-known novel ''
The Call of the Wild'' was first published, in serialized form, in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' in 1903.
Emblematic of the ''Post's'' fiction was author
Clarence Budington Kelland, who first appeared in 1916–17 with stories of homespun heroes, "Efficiency Edgar" and "Scattergood Baines". Kelland was a steady presence from 1922 until 1961.
For many years
William Hazlett Upson William Hazlett Upson (September 6, 1891 – February 5, 1975) was an American author, best remembered for a series of stories featuring Alexander Botts, a salesman for the Earthworm Tractor Company.
Early life
Born at Glen Ridge, New Jersey on Se ...
contributed a very popular series of short stories about the escapades of Earthworm Tractors salesman Alexander Botts.
Publication in the ''Post'' launched careers and helped established artists and writers stay afloat.
P. G. Wodehouse said "the wolf was always at the door" until the ''Post'' gave him his "first break" in 1915 by serializing ''
Something New''.
Politics
After the election of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, ''Post'' columnist
Garet Garrett became a vocal critic of the
New Deal. Garrett accused the Roosevelt administration of initiating
socialist
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strategies. After editor George Lorimer died, Garrett became editorial writer-in-chief and criticized the Roosevelt administration's support of the United Kingdom and efforts to prepare to enter what became the
Second World War
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, and allegedly showed some support for
Adolf Hitler
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in some of his editorials. Garrett's positions aroused controversy and may have cost the ''Post'' readers and advertisers in the aftermath of
Pearl Harbor
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and
the Holocaust
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.
Editors
(Listed from the purchase by Curtis, 1898)
[Otto Friedrich, ''Decline and Fall'' (Harper & Row, 1970), flyleaf, chapter 2, and passim, provides info for 1898–1969]
Cover gallery
Image:Babynew.jpg, December 28, 1907. Cover by J. C. Leyendecker
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File:SatrudayEveningPost041610.jpg, April 16, 1910. Cover by Anton Otto Fischer
Anton Otto Fischer (February 23, 1882 – March 26, 1962) was a German-born American illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post.
Background
Born in Germany and orphaned at any early age, he ran away at the age of 15 to escape being forced into ...
File:SaturdayEveningPost11Mar1911.jpg, March 11, 1911. Cover by Alonzo Myron Kimball
File:1920-12-04-Saturday-Evening-Post-Norman-Rockwell-cover-Santa-and-Expense-Book-no-logo-400-Digimarc.jpg, December 4, 1920 Cover by Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the ...
File:1921-6-4 No Swimming - Norman Rockwell.jpg, June 4, 1921. Cover by Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the ...
See also
*
Constantin Alajalov
*
Cyrus Curtis
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John Philip Falter
John Philip Falter (February 28, 1910 – May 20, 1982) was an American artist best known for his many cover paintings for ''The Saturday Evening Post''.
Early life
Born in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Falter moved at an early age with his family to F ...
*
Anton Otto Fischer
Anton Otto Fischer (February 23, 1882 – March 26, 1962) was a German-born American illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post.
Background
Born in Germany and orphaned at any early age, he ran away at the age of 15 to escape being forced into ...
*
Garet Garrett
* ''
Ladies' Home Journal
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J. C. Leyendecker
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951) was a German-American illustrator, considered one of the preeminent American illustrators of the early 20th century. He is best known for his poster, book and advertising illustrati ...
*
Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the ...
*
John E. Sheridan (illustrator)
John Emmet Sheridan (June 14, 1877 – July 3, 1948) was an illustrator well known in his lifetime for his cover art for ''The Saturday Evening Post'', his illustrations for ''Collier's Weekly'' and ''Ladies' Home Journal'', and his commercial adv ...
*
Harry Simmons
*
Frank Glasgow Tinker
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Tinker was cre ...
*
Edmund Ward
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Reader's Digest'' (still in publication)
References
Further reading
* Cohn, Jan. ''Creating America: George Horace Lorimer and the Saturday Evening Post'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990)
* Damon-Moore, Helen. ''Magazines for the millions: Gender and commerce in the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, 1880–1910'' (SUNY Press, 1994)
* Hall, Roger I. "A system pathology of an organization: the rise and fall of the old Saturday Evening Post." ''Administrative science quarterly'' (1976): 185–211
in JSTOR*
Tebbel, John William. ''George Horace Lorimer and the Saturday Evening Post'' (1948)
External links
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