Influences and Legacy
In 1998, Indian author Ved Mehta, who had worked with Shawn at The New Yorker for almost three decades, published a biography of Shawn entitled Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing.
Shawn was portrayed in the 2005 film Capote by Bob Balaban.
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