Everybody's Magazine
{{Short description|American magazine published from 1899 to 1929}}
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Everybody's Magazine was an American magazine published from 1899 to 1929.{{cite web|title=Everybody's Magazine|url=http://spartacus-educational.com/USAeverybodys.htm|publisher=Spartacus Educational|access-date=19 February 2016}} The magazine was headquartered in New York City.{{cite web|author1=William Hard|title=Unemployment as a Coming Issue|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/alablegr2&div=14&id=&page=|work=Hein Online|access-date=19 February 2016|date=1912}}
History and profile
The magazine was founded by Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker in 1899, though he had little role in its actual operations.Mott, Frank Luther. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ERGJfgsppfgC&pg=PA72 Sketches of 21 Magazines: 1905-1930], p. 72-87 (1968) Initially, the magazine published a combination of non-fiction articles and new fiction stories. By 1926, the magazine had become a pulp fiction magazine and in 1929 it merged with Romance magazine.
In 1903, it had a circulation of 150,000, and Wanamaker sold the magazine for $75,000 to a group headed by Erman Jesse Ridgway. A series of muckraking articles called "Frenzied Finance" in 1904 boosted circulation to well over 500,000, and it stayed above the half million mark for many years. From 1912 to 1914, Trumbull White served as editor and published views on the progression to World War 1 by H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Gilbert K. Chesterton.{{Cite book |last=Mott |first=Frank Luther |title=A History of American Magazines, 1885-1905, Volume 5 |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1957 |location=Cambridge, MA |pages=72, 84–85}} During America's involvement in World War I, circulation declined below 300,000. By the late 1920s, it had declined to about 50,000.
. Beginning in 1915, the magazine began referring to itself simply as Everybody's. Writers who appeared in it include Jack London, Talbot Mundy, Victor Rousseau, O. Henry, A. A. Milne (Milne's novel The Red House Mystery was serialised in the magazine from August to December 1921 as The Red House Murder)Ed Hulse, The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Collecting Pulps. Murania Press, 2009. {{ISBN|0-9795955-0-9}} (pp. 168-169) Hugh Pendexter, Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, Raoul Whitfield and Dornford Yates.
The last issue of Everybody's Magazine was published in March 1929. In 1931, publisher Alfred A. Cohen purchased Everybody's Magazine from the Butterick Publishing Company and attempted to revive it with F. Orlin Tremaine as editor. No known issues were produced and the magazine was soon declared discontinued.The Author & Journalist, various market reports.
Gallery
File:Bijou Fernandez 1.jpg|Bijou Fernandez, published, 1903
File:Return of the Useless.jpg|George Bellows
Return of the Useless, published December 1918 to illustrate "Belgium: The Crowning Crime"
References
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External links
- [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=everymag Everybody's Magazine: The Online Books Page]
Category:Defunct magazines published in New York City
Category:Magazines established in 1899
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1929
Category:Literary magazines published in the United States
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