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| 1863–1930, American editor, b. Helder, Netherlands. His family immigrated to the United States in 1870. He founded the Brooklyn Magazine (later Cosmopolitan) in 1883. As editor (1889–1919), he made the Ladies’ Home Journal a leading American magazine for women, introducing serious articles and crusades to a medium previously restricted to light entertainment. Bok published fiction by Howells, Twain, Bret Harte, and Kipling and articles by several American Presidents.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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- The Americanization of Edward Bok. 1921
Pulitzer Prize–winning Autobiography of an influencial publisher and editor.
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