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Freda Kirchwey

American editor and publisher
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Sept. 26, 1893, Lake Placid, N.Y., U.S.
Died:
Jan. 3, 1976, St. Petersburg, Fla. (aged 82)
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Freda Kirchwey (born Sept. 26, 1893, Lake Placid, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 3, 1976, St. Petersburg, Fla.) was an American editor and publisher, remembered for her long association with the liberal magazine The Nation. Kirchwey was the daughter of a Columbia University Law School professor and dean and later (1915–16) warden of Sing Sing State Prison (now Ossining Correctional Facility). She graduated from Barnard College, New York City, in 1915 and became a reporter for the New York Morning Telegraph. In 1917–18 she wrote for Every Week magazine, and in 1918 she joined the editorial staff of The Nation under the ...(100 of 269 words)

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