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Washington Irving
American writer, historian and diplomat (1783-1859)
Hugh Hefner
American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
William Randolph Hearst
American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)
Walter Lippmann
American journalist and political commentator (1889–1974)
Martha Stewart
American businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)
Mary Baker Eddy
American founder of Christian Science (1821–1910)
Larry Flynt
American publisher
John F. Kennedy Jr.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., also referred to as JFK Jr. was an American businessman, attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was the son of the 35th U.S. president John F. Kennedy, and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
Glenn Beck
American conservative political commentator
William F. Buckley Jr.
American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator (1925–2008)
Joe Sacco
Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist; pioneer of the Non-Fiction Graphic Novel (b. 1960)
Milton Glaser
American graphic designer (1929–2020)
Peter Matthiessen
American novelist (1927–2014)
Arthur Coleman Danto
American art critic and philosopher (1924–2013)
Irving Kristol
American columnist, journalist, and writer (1920–2009)
Henry Luce
American magazine publisher (1898–1967)
Walter Laqueur
American historian and political commentator (1921-2018)
Tivadar Soros
Hungarian lawyer, author and editor (1894–1968)
Bob Guccione
American publisher and photographer (1930–2010)
Bill Kristol
American writer
Anthony Boucher
American author, critic, and editor (1911–1968)
Norman Thomas
American Presbyterian minister and socialist (1884-1968)
Harriet Monroe
American poet and editor (1860-1936)
Venus Lux
American pornographic actress
James Kirke Paulding
American writer (1778–1860)
John Yarmuth
American politician
Charles Bernstein
American writer
Herb Lubalin
American graphic designer (1918-1981)
Condé Nast
American publisher (1873–1942), founder of the eponymous publishing house
Walter Annenberg
American businessman, ambassador, and philanthropist (1908–2002)
George Plimpton
American writer (1927–2003)
Jann Wenner
American magazine founder
Elijah Coleman Bridgman
first American missionary to China (1801-1861)
Herbert Croly
American political writer (1869–1930)
Frank Leslie
English-American engraver, illustrator, and publisher
Jane Grant
American journalist (1892–1972)
Legs McNeil
American writer
Grace Mirabella
American magazine editor
John Collins Warren
American surgeon (1778–1856)
Briton Hadden
American journalist and co-founder of Time magazine (1898-1929)
Martin Goodman
publisher; founder of Marvel Comics (1908-1992)
Bernarr Macfadden
American physical culturist and magazine publisher (1868–1955)
Wayne Green
American publisher (1922-2013)
Barbara Morgan
American artist and photographer (1900-1992)
Harold Ross
American journalist (1892–1951)
Al Goldstein
American publisher (1936-2013)
Peter Brimelow
American white supremacist writer
Ralph J. Gleason
American music critic (1917–1975)
John Ames Mitchell
American writer (1845-1918)
Edwin T. Meredith
American businessman (1876–1928)
Nat Fleischer
American writer and magazine founder (1887–1972)
Robert William St. John
American newspaper publisher
James Gordon Lindsay
American preacher and publisher (1906–1973)
Gladys Heldman
US sports journalist, founder of World Tennis Magazine
Bruce Andrews
American poet
Sidney Shapiro
American translator (1915–2014)
Tibor Kalman
American graphic designer (1949–1999)
Bonnie McElveen-Hunter
American diplomat
David Lawrence
American publisher (1888-1973)