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2 unusual facts about Scribner’s Monthly


Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

In Scribner's Monthly of August 1871, she published an account of the new French political leadership that came to power following the war.

Scribner's Monthly

Charles Scribner I, Andrew Armstrong, Arthur Peabody, Edward Seymour, Josiah Gilbert Holland, and Roswell Smith established "Scribner & Co." on July 19, 1870 to start on the publication of Scribner's Monthly.


A Challenge for the Actor

A Challenge for the Actor is a bestselling acting textbook by the actress and teacher Uta Hagen (Scribner Publishing, 1991), used in many acting classes.

Alen Pol Kobryn

Poseidon's Shadow, a novel projecting the theme of the Iliad in cold war terms, published by Scribner, contains one of the earliest references to the existence of stealth technology.

Alfred Gilpin Jones

She wrote for the Toronto Week, and contributed a serial, "A Hazard of Hearts," to Frank Leslie's Monthly.

Archibald Cox

His mother was the sister of Maxwell Perkins, an editor at the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons.

Audrey Niffenegger

After a fiercely contested auction, Scribner, a unit of Simon & Schuster, bought the rights to publish the new novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, in the United States this fall.

Charles Scribner II

Scribner's brother-in-law, Ernest Flagg, was an architect and designed two Beaux-Arts buildings for the firm's New York headquarters.

Charles Scribner's Sons Building

Charles Scribner's Sons Building is a building in Manhattan at 597 Fifth Avenue, built 1912–13 to house the Scribner's Bookstore.

Declining business forced the Scribner's Bookstore to relocate to a lower-rent district in New York before it was acquired by Barnes & Noble, Inc. The building has subsequently housed Brentano's bookstore, a Benetton clothing store, and presently Sephora, a cosmetics retailer.

Edward L. Burlingame

In 1879, he became connected editorially with the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, and in 1886 was appointed founding editor-in-chief of Scribner's Magazine, where he served until his resignation in 1914.

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard

Many of her own works were originally published between 1859 and 1890 in such magazines as The Aldine, Harper's Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, and The Atlantic Monthly.

Eugene Schuyler

His mother, Matilda Scribner, was half-sister of Charles Scribner, the founder of the famous American publishing house.

Fargo Rock City

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta is a book written by Chuck Klosterman, first published by Scribner in 2001.

Frank Chodorov

Chodorov published articles in a variety of magazines, including H.L. Mencken's American Mercury, the Saturday Evening Post and Scribner's.

George Frisbie Hoar

His autobiography, Autobiography of Seventy Years, was published in 1903; it first appeared in serial form in Scribner's magazine.

Harvey B. Scribner

Scribner was selected as New York City Schools Chancellor in 1970, having been selected for the position after a series of notables including Ramsey Clark, Sargent Shriver and Cyrus Vance had been offered the post.

Helen Van Pelt Wilson

Over the course of her writing career, Helen Wilson contributed to Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Scribner’s, House Beautiful, House and Garden, Flower Grower, and Better Homes and Gardens.

Henry Sandham

In 1877, he began doing illustrations for Scribner’s Monthly, with his first piece accompanying an article by William George Beers.

Jack Lindeman

His more recent poetry appears in Commonweal, Argestes, Poetry Now, Compass Rose, Chiron Review, Blue Unicorn, Bellowing Ark, and CommonSense2, and he is included in the anthology From Both Sides Now, published by Scribner, 1998.

Jacques Reich

For some years he devoted himself to portraits for Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, numbering over 2,000, and most of the portraits for Scribner’s Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings.

Jodie McMullen

She starred in "Requiem" with Jason Connery; and more recently has worked as a freelance writer, writing for the Listings Magazine, View London, International Woman's Monthly and several other online and print magazines.

John Fulbrook

For seven years he was the art director for the literary Simon and Schuster imprint, Scribner, where he designed bestselling book jackets for authors such as Stephen King, Steve Martin, Annie Proulx, Don DeLillo, Miranda July, Kathy Reichs, Bobby Flay and many more.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

When they returned to the United States in 1869, the two men collaborated with Charles Scribner to publish Scribner's Monthly.

June Bingham Birge

Ms. Birge wrote several non-fiction books, including Courage to Change: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr (Scribner, 1961); U Thant: The Search for Peace (Knopf, 1966); and, with Norman Tamarkin, The Pursuit of Health (Walker, 1985).

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story is a work of non-fiction written by Chuck Klosterman, first published by Scribner in 2005.

Kitty Pilgrim

The Explorer's Code is the first in the series, published by Scribner in 2011.

Lucy Skidmore Scribner

Lucy Skidmore Scribner (July 4, 1853 - May 3, 1931) was the founder of Skidmore College.

On Food and Cooking

On Food And Cooking: The Science And Lore Of The Kitchen is a book by Harold McGee, published by Scribner in the United States in 1984 and revised extensively for a 2004 second edition.

Pare Lorentz

He contributed articles to leading magazines such as Scribner’s, Vanity Fair, McCall's, and Town and Country.

Peter Newell

A native of McDonough County, Illinois, Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems, which appeared in Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Scribner's Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Judge, and other publications.

Robert Frederick Blum

A Daughter of Japan, drawn by Blum and William Jacob Baer, was the cover of Scribner's Magazine for May 1893, and was one of the earliest pieces of color printing for an American magazine.

Sam A. Scribner

Samuel A. Scribner, son of Alexander St. James Scribner and Cynthia Cheseboro Scribner, was born August 18, 1859 near Brookville, Pennsylvania, county seat of Jefferson County.

Scanlan's Monthly

Scanlan's is best-remembered for featuring several articles by Hunter S. Thompson, and especially for what is considered the first instance of gonzo journalism, Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved".

The issue was finally printed in Quebec and in a German translation in Stuttgart (Guerilla-Krieg in USA, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt 1971).

Scribner State Airport

By 1951, word came that the then surplus Scribner Air Base was being considered as the site of a proposed United States Air Force Academy.

Stacey Grenrock-Woods

The July 2007 issue of Playboy magazine featured a picture from her 1989 Playmate test, which was shot by Richard Fegley and written about in Woods's memoir, I California (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007).

Tara Ison

She is the author of three novels: Rockaway (Soft Skull Press, 2013), The List (Scribner, 2007), and A Child out of Alcatraz (Faber & Faber, 1997), which was a Finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

The Ivory Tower

An interesting footnote is the large advance that Scribner's paid to James for the novel.

Thomas Wolfe

The editing was done by Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's, the most prominent book editor of the time, who also worked with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.


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