author
Frank Andrew Munsey
1854–1925
A self-made publisher who helped reshape American mass-market reading, he built a magazine and newspaper empire and became closely associated with the rise of pulp fiction. His name still turns up in publishing history for the way he chased huge audiences and commercial success.
2 Audiobooks
Under Fire: A Tale of New England Village Life
by Frank Andrew Munsey
The Boy Broker; Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street
by Frank Andrew Munsey
About the author
Born in Mercer, Maine, in 1854, Frank Andrew Munsey became one of the most influential American magazine and newspaper publishers of his era. He is widely linked with the growth of popular, inexpensive fiction magazines, and his publishing ventures reached a vast readership in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Munsey was more than a magazine man: sources describe him as a newspaper and magazine publisher, banker, political financier, and author. Britannica notes that he became a dominant figure in the consolidation of American journalism, while reference sources and Wikipedia emphasize the scale of the publishing empire he built.
He died in New York City in 1925. Today, he is remembered less for a single book than for the lasting effect he had on American publishing, especially in turning magazines and newspapers into large-scale commercial enterprises.