| 词条 | St. Clair McKelway |
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St. Clair McKelway (February 13, 1905 - January 10, 1980) was a writer and editor for The New Yorker magazine beginning in 1933. ChildhoodMcKelway was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Alexander McKelway, a Presbyterian minister, journalist, and child labor reformer, and Lavinia Rutherford Smith. In 1909 the senior McKelway took a job with the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) and moved the family to Washington D.C. McKelway grew up in the Georgetown neighborhood and attended Western High School (now Duke Ellington School of the Arts).[1] CareerHe began his journalistic career at the Washington Herald before moving to New York City.[1] He worked at the New York World and the New York Herald Tribune.[2] While working at the New York Herald Tribune, he was described by Stanley Walker as, "One of the twelve best reporters in New York." The New YorkerMcKelway came to The New Yorker at the behest of Harold Ross who "was looking to infuse the magazine with a jolt of gritty reportage."[2] He served as a managing editor for journalistic contributions at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1939.[3] While editor he hired E. J. Kahn Jr., Joseph Mitchell, Brendan Gill, Philip Hamburger and Margaret Case Harriman.[2] During World War II, he held public relations posts for the Army Air Force, leaving the service with the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the war McKelway returned to The New Yorker and remained at the magazine for 47 years.[4] According to William Shawn, McKelway "was one of the handful of people who, together with Harold Ross, The New Yorker{{'}}s founding editor, set the magazine on its course."[4] In 1950, he collected several of his pieces for The New Yorker in the book True Tales from the Annals of Crime & Rascality. One article from that collection was the basis for the 1950 movie Mister 880, starring Edmund Gwenn as a small-time counterfeiter of one dollar bills, who eluded the United States Secret Service for ten years, from 1938 to 1948.[5] St. Clair McKelway also wrote screenplays for two other movies in 1948: Sleep, My Love, directed by Douglas Sirk, and The Mating of Millie, starring Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes. He published the book The Edinburgh Caper: A One-Man International Plot, based on a New Yorker article,[6] in 1962. In 2010, Bloomsbury USA published a paperback-original collection of 18 of McKelway's works, Reporting at Wit's End: Tales from the New Yorker ({{ISBN|978-1-60819-034-8}}), with an appreciative introduction by Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker. Personal lifeMcKelway was married five times, including to the writer Maeve Brennan.[7] His brother Benjamin Mosby McKelway was a reporter for The Washington Star. He was also involved with Eileen McKenney.[8] McKelway should not be confused with his great-uncle, also named St. Clair McKelway, the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle.[1] BibliographyBooks
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Essays"An Affix for Birds," in A Subtreasury of American Humor, edited by E. B. White and Katharine S. White References1. ^1 2 Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Volume 4, edited by William Stevens Powell, Univ of North Carolina Press, p. 158. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:McKelway, St. Clair}}2. ^1 2 {{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/14/entertainment/la-ca-st-clair-mckelway14-2010feb14 | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Marc | last=Weingarten | title=On the crime beat with St. Clair McKelway | date=February 14, 2010}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=New York Public Library, New Yorker Records |url=http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/NYhtml/nyserdesc.htm |accessdate=2008-01-19 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709080355/http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/NYhtml/nyserdesc.htm |archivedate=July 9, 2007 }} 4. ^1 Obituary for St. Clair McKelway by William Shawn, The New Yorker, January 28, 1980 5. ^{{cite web | title = IMDB listing for St. Clair McKelway | url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042742/ | accessdate = 2008-01-19 }} 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/10/13/the-edinburgh-caper|title=THE EDINBURGH CAPER.|first=St Clair|last=McKelway|date=6 October 1962|publisher=|via=www.newyorker.com}} 7. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.economist.com/node/15577493 | work=The Economist | title=Bottoms up | date=February 25, 2010}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0151011494/dorothparkersnew/west/?page_id=7|title=Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney|first=Marion|last=Meade|date=11 March 2010|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|via=Amazon}} 13 : American male journalists|The New Yorker editors|The New Yorker people|The New Yorker staff writers|New York Herald Tribune people|1905 births|1980 deaths|Writers from Charlotte, North Carolina|Journalists from Washington, D.C.|United States Army Air Forces personnel|20th-century American non-fiction writers|20th-century American male writers|People from Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) |
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