C. Michael Curtis, The Atlantic Monthly's fiction editor, discusses short stories, discovering new writers, and his long tenure at the magazine

Following his graduation from Groton and Harvard, ELLERY SEDGWICKserved his editorial apprenticeship on the staff of the Youth’s Companion; he piloted a leaky Leslie’s Monthly through a rough sea; worked for a year with S. S. McClure, and then as an editor of D. Appleton & Co. In 1908 he returned to Boston to become the proprietor and eighth editor of the Atlantic. In the thirty years of his editorship the magazine rose from a circulation of 15.000 to 105.000. and with this gain went a widening interest and no lessening of quality. The wise reflections on editing which follow form the introduction to Mr. Sedgwick’s capacious anthology, Atlantic Harvest.

The editor of City Journal, one of America's most successful journals of urban affairs, on his magazine, its history, and its future.

WILLIAM EDMAN MASSEE was engaged in editorial work and writing before spending a year in France. He is now editor of the Red Cross Magazine. This is his first appearance in the Atlantic.

A collection of articles by and about The Atlantic's third editor, William Dean Howells, celebrates his contributions to the magazine and American literature.