The Smart Set
The Smart Set was a literary magazine from 1900 to 1930.
history
The magazine was founded by the businessman and publisher William d'Alton Mann . The first issue of the magazine appeared in America in March 1900. When Mann's The Smart Set was sold for $ 100,000 in 1911, friends Henry L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan received an offer to take over the editing. However, they refused and recommended Willard Huntington Wright , who only held the post for a year.
In 1914 Eugen Crowe and Eltinge F. Warner bought a majority stake. This time Mencken and Nathan could be won over to the editorial team. Both partially led the magazine out of its crisis of falling readership and financial problems.
After nine years, Nathan and Mencken left their jobs. In July 1930 the last edition appeared under the changed name: The New Smart Set
Overview of the authors involved
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Willa Cather
- Ben Hecht
- Carl Van Vechten
- Maxwell Anderson
- SS Van Dine
- Dorothy Parker
- Dashiell Hammett
- Sinclair Lewis
- Aldous Huxley
- James Joyce
- Eugene O'Neill
- Ezra Pound
- D. H. Lawrence
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Robinson Jeffers
- O. Henry
literature
- Owen Hatteras: Pistols for Two New York: Knopf, 1917
- Carl R. Dolmetsch: The Smart Set: A History and Anthology New York: Dial, 1966
Individual evidence
- ↑ encyclopedia.com: Mann, William D'Alton 1839-1920 , accessed April 15, 2020
Web links
- The Smart Set (scanned editions)
- Detailed biography of George Nathan (English)