The Atlantic - List of Editors

List of Editors

  • James Russell Lowell, 1857–1861
  • James Thomas Fields, 1861–1871
  • William Dean Howells, 1871–1881
  • Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1881–1890
  • Horace Elisha Scudder, 1890–1898
  • Walter Hines Page, 1898–1899
  • Bliss Perry, 1899–1909
  • Ellery Sedgwick, 1909–1938
  • Edward A. Weeks, 1938–1966
  • Robert Manning, 1966–1980
  • William Whitworth, 1980–1999
  • Michael Kelly, 1999–2003
  • Cullen Murphy, 2003–2006 (interim editor, never named editor-in-chief)
  • James Bennet, 2006–present

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