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Frank Andrew Munsey
1854–1925
A restless publisher who helped make magazines cheap enough for mass audiences, he became one of the most influential figures in American popular publishing. His name is especially tied to the rise of pulp magazines and to a newspaper empire that reshaped parts of New York journalism.
2 Audiobooks
The Boy Broker; Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street
by Frank Andrew Munsey
Under Fire: A Tale of New England Village Life
by Frank Andrew Munsey
About the author
Born in Mercer, Maine, on August 21, 1854, Frank Andrew Munsey became an American magazine and newspaper publisher whose business instincts changed the reach of popular reading. He is widely credited with helping popularize the use of inexpensive wood-pulp paper for mass-market magazines, a shift that made reading material cheaper and more widely available.
Munsey first found success in magazines, most famously with Munsey's Magazine, and his publishing ventures became closely associated with the early pulp-magazine boom. He later built a significant newspaper business, owning and combining several papers, especially in New York City and Washington, D.C. Contemporary reference sources remember him as a powerful but controversial press owner, admired for his commercial vision and criticized for aggressively buying and merging newspapers.
He died on December 22, 1925. Beyond publishing, he also left a major philanthropic legacy: a large part of his fortune went to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, with additional gifts supporting libraries and hospitals in Maine.