George Horace Lorimer

Born in 1867, George Horace Lorimer became one of the most influential figures in American magazine publishing. He is best known for his long leadership of The Saturday Evening Post, where he served as editor and later editor-in-chief during the magazine's rise to enormous national prominence.

Alongside his editorial work, he wrote fiction, essays, and the popular Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Those pieces, presented as lively advice from a practical businessman to his son, helped make him widely known as a writer in his own right.

Lorimer remained closely associated with the Post into the 1930s and died in 1937. His career is still remembered as a major part of the history of American journalism and middle-class popular reading.