Amy Reading's "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker"

Biographers in Conversation · Apr 16, 2025 · 49m

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Amy Reading chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker, the biography of Katharine Sergeant White, the first fiction editor of The New Yorker, an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

Amy Reading’s inspiration for crafting The World She Edited

How The World She Edited provides a long overdue corrective to the male-dominated lens through which…