The Blue Hill Public Library and Blue Hill Books are cosponsoring an author event with author Amy Reading for her new book The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker on Wednesday September 11 at 7:00PM. 

In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker’s midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was only a few months old. Over the next thirty-six years, White would transform the publication into a literary powerhouse. This towering but behind-the scenes figure in the history of 20th-century literature finally gets the first-rate biography she deserves. 

Based on years of scrupulous research, acclaimed author Amy Reading creates a rare and deeply intimate portrait of a prolific editor—through both her incredible tenure at The New Yorker, and her famous marriage to E.B. White—and reveals how she transformed our understanding of literary culture and community.

Amy Reading is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the New York Public Library. She is the author of The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con. She lives in upstate New York, where she has served on the executive board of Buffalo Street Books, an indie cooperative bookstore, since 2018. 

For more information, please email Assistant Director Kayleigh Thomas at kayleigh.thomas[at]bhpl.net or call the library at 374-5515. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event from Blue Hill Books.