Amy Loveman (16 May 1881 – 11 December 1955) was an American editor and critic, best known for her work as a founding editor of the ''

Saturday Review of Literature ''Saturday Review'', previously ''The Saturday Review of Literature'', was an American weekly magazine established in 1924. Norman Cousins was the editor from 1940 to 1971. Under Cousins, it was described as "a compendium of reportage, essays a ...

'' and for her work at the

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. She was responsible for more than 800 contributions to the ''Saturday Review''. According to the

Jewish Women's Archive The Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to document "Jewish women's stories, elevate their voices, and inspire them to be agents of change." JWA was founded by Gail Twersky Reimer in 1995 in Brook ...

, Loveman was "the ideal book review editor" who had a "vital role in the Book-of-the-Month Club, selecting great books to introduce to new readers.""Amy Loveman," Jewish Women's Archive, n.d. https://jwa.org/people/loveman-amy

Selected publications

* ''Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature from “The Literary Review,”'' with Henry Seidel Canby and William Rose Benét (1921). * ''Designed for Reading: An Anthology Drawn from “The Saturday Review of Literature,” 1924–1934'', with Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, Christopher Morley, and May Lamberton Becker (1934). * ''I’m Looking for a Book'' (1936). * ''Varied Harvest: A Miscellany of Writing by Barnard College Women,'' with Fredrica Barach and Marjorie M. Mayer (1953).

References

External links

Finding aid to Amy Loveman letters at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
1881 births 1955 deaths American editors American literary critics American women editors American women literary critics Writers from New York City {{US-editor-stub