The Bookman (New York)

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The Bookman was an American literary magazine .

The publisher Frank Howard Dodd , the publisher Dodd, Mead & Company , founded in 1895, this literary magazine and certain Harry Thurston Peck her first publisher and editor. The title of the magazine refers to a quote from the writer James Russell Lowell , who described himself with the words "I am a bookman".

The first edition appeared in February 1895 and thus - based on an idea by HT Peck - the first bestseller list in the United States was published. Such lists appeared regularly until 1912. In that year, Publishers Weekly also began to publish a ranking of literature (by sales).

Between 1899 and 1916, The Bookman was headed by Arthur B. Maurice and was succeeded by GG Wyant, who ran it until 1918. The Bookman was after the First World War by the publisher George H. Doran Company acquired and managed until 1927 by John C. Farrar.

In 1927 they were sold to Seward Collins and Burton Rascoe . The following year, Rascoe cashed out and Collins ran the magazine under sole responsibility until it was discontinued in 1933.

None of the editors and editors-in-chief changed the profile of this literary magazine; It was only under the last owner, Seward Collins, that The Bookman got a political orientation that was very close to fascism .

literature

  • James D. Hart: The Oxford Companion to American Literature . University Press, New York 1995, ISBN 0-19-506548-4 .
  • Edward Wagenknecht: American Profile. 1900-1909 . University Press, Amherst, Mass. 1982, ISBN 0-87023-350-5 .