Larger Than Life: The Legacy of Daniel Longwell and Mary Fraser Longwell - Hardcover

Smith, Judith Haas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 150492116X ISBN 13: 9781504921169

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2015

Synopsis

Daniel Longwell began his career in journalism as a "publisher's young man" at Doubleday Publishing Company where he represented a number of outstanding twentieth century authors, including Edna Ferber, Sinclair Lewis, and Kenneth Roberts. In 1934, Henry Luce hired him to investigate and create a "picture magazine" that was launched as LIFE magazine in 1936. As the idea man at LIFE for nearly twenty years and editor for ten years, Dan, with his wife, Mary Fraser Longwell, took LIFE through World War II and into the postwar years. Dan was the catalyst for LIFE's publishing the "Memoirs of Winston Churchill" and Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." The Longwells retired to Neosho, MO, in 1954 where Judith Haas Smith came to know and love them. Larger Than Life traces an amazing period in publishing and photojournalism and reincarnates two outstanding journalists who left a lasting legacy to the world of magazine publication.

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About the Author:

Judith Haas Smith, of Neosho, MO, grew up on the block on which Dan and Mary Longwell lived after their retirement from Time Inc. in 1954. Having known Dan and Mary during her high school and college years, she remembers them as cultured, down-to-earth people with a wide variety of friends and interests. As a student-protégée of Dan's, Smith was mentored by Longwell well into her college years. Smith has degrees from Tulane University and Pittsburg State University, with further studies at the University of Glasgow and Yale University. Her work experience includes two years as a reporter for LIFE magazine and an educator. Returning to Neosho after being widowed, she and Mary, also newly-widowed, deepened their friendship. Smith is married to Bill Smith and writes for local newspapers, lectures through the Tom Lea Institute, El Paso, and sits on the Board for the Longwell Museum at Crowder College in Neosho.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 150492116X
• ISBN 13: 9781504921169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336