In-Person Panel: Women Editors, Publishers & Activists

Join the Grolier Club as a panel of authors of groundbreaking new books will shed light on overlooked New York women who shaped the published prose and poetry that reached readers internationally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Amy Reading will discuss her literary biography, The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker (HarperCollins), which chronicles White's four decades of influential editing and fostering the careers of women writers. Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan, co-editors of The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman (Penguin Classics), the first comprehensive collection of journalism and fiction by Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1865-1947), will explore how Jordan popularized the true-crime genre, edited a leading women's magazine, collaborated on composite novels with writers such as Henry James and William Dean Howells, and blended reportage on women with literary fiction in ways that anticipated the #MeToo movement.

Carr, Harrison-Kahan, and Reading will compare notes on the challenges of telling stories of women editors' invisible labor.

The panelists' books will be available for sale and signing at this event.

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