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Edward Alden Jewell
1888–1947
A longtime New York Times editor and art critic, this American writer moved easily between journalism and fiction. His career placed him close to the art world of the 1920s through the 1940s, while his novels showed a parallel interest in character and culture.
2 Audiobooks
The Moth Decides: A Novel
by Edward Alden Jewell
The White Kami: A Novel
by Edward Alden Jewell
About the author
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1888, he went on to build a varied literary career as a reporter, editor, critic, and novelist. Before settling fully into journalism, he also spent part of his youth deeply interested in the theater and even toured for a time with actor Louis James.
After study abroad in 1910 and 1911, he worked at the Grand Rapids Herald, The New York Tribune, Everybody's Magazine, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. In 1928 he became assistant to New York Times art critic Elisabeth Luther Cary, and after her death he succeeded her, later serving as the paper's art editor from July 1936 until his own death in 1947.
Alongside his newspaper work, he published fiction, including The Charmed Circle. He is remembered as a figure who connected newspaper culture, literary writing, and American art criticism during the first half of the twentieth century.