John T. Winterich

{{short description|American journalist}}

John Tracy Winterich (1891–1970) was an American writer and journalist.

Winterich was born in Middletown, Connecticut on May 25, 1891. He grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from Brown University in 1912.{{cite news|title=John Winterich,Bibliophile,Dies. Wrote for the Saturday Review|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/17/archives/john-winterich-bibliophile-dies-wrote-for-the-saturday-review.html?_r=0|accessdate=1 October 2016|work=The New York Times|date=17 August 1970}}

He was Managing Editor of Stars & Stripes, a prolific contributor of articles to many journals and a prominent American bibliophile in the first half of the twentieth century.{{Cite web|url=http://portraitsofwar.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/wwi-stars-and-stripes-editor-john-t-winterich-original-wartime-autographed-postcard-2/|title = WWI Stars and Stripes Editor John T. Winterich Original Wartime Autographed Postcard|date = 14 January 2012}} He was best known as a contributing editor of the Saturday Review, a position he had held since 1946, after a brief stint as managing editor.{{cite news|title=John Winterich,Bibliophile,Dies. Wrote for the Saturday Review|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/17/archives/john-winterich-bibliophile-dies-wrote-for-the-saturday-review.html?_r=0|accessdate=1 October 2016|work=The New York Times|date=17 August 1970}} While working for Saturday Review he was the original author of "The Criminal Record", a weekly column in which crime and detective fiction was reviewed by Winterich under his pseudonym "Sergeant Cuff", taken from the detective in Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone.

In the 1930s he was editor of The Colophon.Randall, David A. (1969) Dukedom Large Enough. New York: Random House, p. 135. He was a contributor to the innovative New York newspaper PM.Hart, James D., and Phillip W. Leininger. "PM." The Oxford Companion to American Literature, Oxford University Press, 1995. Oxford Reference. 2004. Date Accessed 27 Aug. 2014.