- Who have been the editors of The Atlantic Monthly?
- Who were the founders of The Atlantic Monthly?
- Who gave The Atlantic Monthly its name?
- Where has The Atlantic Monthly been published?
- What is the circulation of The Atlantic?
- Which covers have been best sellers?
- How many submissions does the magazine receive each year?
WHO HAVE BEEN THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY?
James Russell Lowell, 1857-1861
James Thomas Fields, 1861-1871
William Dean Howells, 1871-1881
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1881-1890
Horace Elisha Scudder, 1890-1898
Walter Hines Page, 1898-1899
Bliss Perry, 1899-1909
Ellery Sedgwick, 1909-1938
Edward A. Weeks, 1938-1966
Robert Manning, 1966-1980
William Whitworth, 1980-1999
Michael Kelly, 1999-2002
James Bennet, 2006-present
WHO WERE THE FOUNDERS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY?
James Russell Lowell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Francis H. Underwood
John Lothrop Motley
James Elliot Cabot
Moses Dresser Phillips
WHO GAVE THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY ITS NAME?
Oliver Wendell Holmes. His first suggestion was The Atlantic Monthly Magazine, which was later shortened to The Atlantic Monthly. Now most people call it The Atlantic.
WHERE HAS THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY BEEN PUBLISHED?
Until 2006, always in Boston—although the issues from January, 1874, to December, 1877, bore the double imprint "Boston: H. O. Houghton & Co., New York: Hurd & Houghton." The first offices were located in The Old Corner Bookstore, 135 Washington Street. Among later addresses were 124 Tremont Street, No. 4 Park Street, Winthrop Square, 8 Arlington Street, 745 Boylston Street, and 77 North Washington Street. Since January, 2006, The Atlantic Monthly has been located in The Watergate at 600 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., in Washington, D.C.
WHAT IS THE CIRCULATION OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY?
Here are the circulation figures since 1915, the first year in which the number of copies sold on newsstands was accurately recorded:
1915 38,200
1920 101,900
1925 126,000
1930 126,000
1935 101,000
1940 102,000
1945 131,500
1950 169,500
1955 208,300
1960 265,234
1965 279,000
1970 328,000
1975 332,000
1980 339,000
1985 453,000
1990 468,000
1995 459,404
2000 478,861
1. The Cholesterol Myth, by Thomas J. Moore (September 1989)
2. Dan Quayle Was Right, by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (April 1993)
3. American Ground Part 1, by William Langewiesche (July/August 2002)
4. Supremacy by Stealth, by Robert D. Kaplan (July/August 2003)
5. The Roots of Muslim Rage, by Bernard Lewis (September 1990)
6. The Fall of the House of Saud, by Robert Baer (May 2003)
7. Chronic Anxiety and Defining a Self, by Michael E. Kerr (September 1988)
8. The Coming Anarchy, by Robert D. Kaplan (February 1994)
9. The Next Christianity, by Philip Jenkins (October 2002)
10. Tour of Duty, by Douglas Brinkley (December 2003)
HOW MANY SUBMISSIONS DOES THE MAGAZINE RECEIVE EACH YEAR?
12,000 short stories
60,000 non-fiction manuscripts and queries
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