The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker

Name: The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker
ISBN: 9780358655930

by Amy Reading

Pulitzer Prize · 2025 · ShortlistNational Book · 2024 · Shortlist

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Houghton Mifflin HarcourtApril 9, 2024Biography & Memoir NonfictionISBN 9780358655930

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography	2025	Shortlist
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography	2024	Shortlist

About This Book

Sue MacCloskey Reading's biography of Katharine S. White, the legendary fiction editor of The New Yorker, draws on her correspondence with authors including E.B. White (her husband), Eudora Welty, and John Updike to reconstruct her enormous editorial influence. Shortlisted for the NBCC Award.