Walter Yust#Personal life
{{Short description|American journalist and writer}}
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| name = Walter Yust
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1894|5|16}}
| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| death_date = {{death date and age|1960|2|29|1894|5|16}}
| death_place = Evanston, Illinois
| nationality =
| alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania
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| known_for = Editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica from 1938 to 1960{{cite news|last=Katz|first=Harvey|title=Encyclopedia Info Should Begin at Home, Sen. Benton!|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YtUyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yQAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4740,2103522&dq=walter-yust&hl=en|access-date=December 2, 2011|newspaper=Sunday Herald|date=September 17, 1950}}
| occupation = Journalist, writer
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Walter M. Yust (May 16, 1894 – February 29, 1960) was an American journalist and writer. Yust was the American editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica from 1938 to 1960.[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/655089/Walter-Yust "Walter Yust."] Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. January 14, 2009.
Early life
Yust was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
Yust began his career as a writer for the Philadelphia Evening Ledger in 1917 and later worked for newspapers in New Orleans, Louisiana, and for other publications. Yust became literary editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger in 1926. Three years later, upon writing a review of the new 14th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Yust came to the attention of its president, William Cox. The following year Yust began to work for the encyclopaedia and became its associate editor in 1932. He served as editor in chief from 1938 until his retirement in 1960.
Personal life
He was the father of Jane Yust Rivera and filmmaker Larry Yust, who made a 20-minute film, in 1969, for Encyclopædia Britannica Films, of Shirley Jackson{{'}}s "The Lottery", later, Trick Baby (1972), and Homebodies (1974).{{cite web|title=Larry Yust|url=http://www.afana.org/yust.htm|publisher=Academic Film Archive of North America|access-date=December 2, 2011}}{{cite web |title=The Lottery - Larry Yust - 1969 |url=https://www.acmi.net.au/works/96283--the-lottery/ |website=Australian Centre for the Moving Image |access-date=3 August 2022 |language=en}}
Yust died in Evanston, Illinois, at the age of 65 after suffering a heart attack.{{Cite web |last=TIME |date=1960-03-14 |title=Milestones, Mar. 14, 1960 |url=https://time.com/archive/6809229/milestones-mar-14-1960/ |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=TIME |language=en}}
Works
- {{cite book|title=Encyclopædia Britannica: a new survey of universal knowledge |volume=9|editor-first=Walter|editor-last=Yust|year=1949|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p5ARAQAAMAAJ|isbn=9712345386|access-date=24 April 2014}}
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Category:Encyclopædia Britannica
Category:Writers from Philadelphia
Category:American print editors
Category:20th-century American male writers
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