St. Clair McKelway

St. Clair McKelway was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1905, and grew up in Washington, D.C. He worked as an office boy at the old Washington Times-Herald and went on to report and edit for the New York World, the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, and the Bangkok Daily Mail. He eventually became a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he worked for over thirty years, serving as the magazine's managing editor from 1936 to 1939 and leaving an indelible mark on its style. He died in 1980 at the age of seventy-four.