Clay Felker | |
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| Born | Clay Schuette Felker October 2, 1925 |
| Died | July 1, 2008 (aged 82) New York City, US |
| Education | Duke University |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor |
| Known for | Co-founded New York magazine |
| Board member of | Duke Magazine Editorial Board |
| Spouse(s) | Leslie Blatt (m. 1949-div. 19??) |
Clay Schuette Felker (October 2, 1925 – July 1, 2008) was an American magazine editor and journalist who co-founded New York magazine in 1968 and California magazine (first known as New West) in 1976.[1] He was known for bringing numerous journalists into the profession.[2] The New York Times wrote in 1995, "Few journalists have left a more enduring imprint on late 20th-century journalism—an imprint that was unabashedly mimicked even as it was being mocked—than Clay Felker."[3]
Clay Felker, a visionary editor who was widely credited with inventing the formula for the modern magazine, giving it energetic expression in a glossy weekly named for and devoted to the boisterous city that fascinated him — New York — died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82. His death was of natural causes, said his wife, the author Gail Sheehy. He had had throat cancer in his later years.