Katharine Sergeant Angell White

Katharine Sergeant Angell White
Born
Katharine Sergeant

(1892-09-17)September 17, 1892
Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S.[1]
DiedJuly 20, 1977(1977-07-20) (aged 84)
Blue Hill, Maine, U.S.
EducationBryn Mawr College
Occupation(s)Writer and fiction editor, The New Yorker
Spouses
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(m. 1915; div. 1929)​
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(m. 1929)​
ChildrenRoger Angell
Nancy Angell Stableford
Joel White

Katharine Sergeant Angell White (born Katharine Sergeant; September 17, 1892 – July 20, 1977) was an American writer and the fiction editor for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1960.[2][3] In her obituary, printed in The New Yorker in 1977, William Shawn wrote, "More than any other editor except Harold Ross himself, Katharine White gave The New Yorker its shape, and set it on its course."

  1. ^ "White, Katharine S. (1892–1977)". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference obit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007. [1]