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''Princeton Tiger'' or ''Tiger Magazine'' is the second-oldest college humor magazine in the United States, published by
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...
undergraduates since 1882. It is best known for giving the start to literary and artistic talent as wide-ranging as F. Scott Fitzgerald,
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Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1918) and ''Alice Adams (novel), Alice Adams'' (1921). He is one of only four novelists to w ...
. and Tim Ferriss, first publishing the " Man from Nantucket" limerick, and being the first published source using the Tiger as mascot for Princeton.


History

The magazine's style has not remained stagnant over the past 135 years. While the format in the mid-20th century still tended towards humorous, light pieces, the off-campus circulation was broader and the writing reflected it. In recent years, ''Tiger Magazine'' has moved to the internet, where it has begun to expand its topics to be more accessible to those outside of Princeton. Past editorial boards have occasionally published material sufficiently offensive as to spark controversy. Most famous among those controversies was the "Brooke Book" issue of 1983, which satirized an actress named "Brook Shell" who had been purportedly accepted into Princeton—a thinly veiled jab at the real-life actress-model
Brooke Shields Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film ''Pretty Baby (1978 film), Pretty Baby ...
, shortly after she was accepted into Princeton's class of 1987. While the published material was substantially less obscene than some of the drafts that led to it (see the links below for details), the magazine's graduate board was so disturbed as to fire the top undergraduate officers shortly after the issue was published. The issue became a campus
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, attracting national news attention. The March 30, 1893 issue contained the earliest print appearance of the delayed postfixed Not! joke. ''Tiger Magazine'' also has the first recorded " There once was a man from Nantucket" limerick.


Alumni

A number of its writers and editors later went on to notable literary or artistic careers. * Bill Brown * Robert Caro * Whitney Darrow, Jr.Leitch, Alexander
"Princeton Tiger, The"
''A Princeton Companion'', 1978. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
* Chip Deffaa * Tim Ferriss * F. Scott Fitzgerald * Joshua Hammer * David Itzkoff * Rob Kutner *
Jim Lee Jim Lee (; born August 11, 1964) is a Korean-born American comic book artist, writer, editor, and publisher. As of 2023, he is the President, Publisher, and Chief creative officer, Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics. In recognition of his work ...
"The Princeton Tiger"
"Princetoniana," 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
* Aaron Marcus * Henry Martin *
John McPhee John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American author. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction, and he won that award on the fourt ...
* Kenneth Offit * Henry Payne * John Seabrook * Bob Smiley *
Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1918) and ''Alice Adams (novel), Alice Adams'' (1921). He is one of only four novelists to w ...
* Lewis Thomas * Katrina vanden Heuvel * Christine Whelan * Michael WitteWitte, Michael
"BIO"
"Michael C. Witte." Retriever 2016-03-01.


References


External links


''The Princeton Tiger'' - Tigermag.com




* ttps://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_old/PAW98-99/14-0421/0421feat.html ''PAW'' article discussing ''Tiger Magazine'' and Brooke Shields {{Princeton College humor magazines Princeton University Magazines established in 1882 Princeton University publications Magazines published in New Jersey