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Home Current Issue Back Issues Premium Archive Forum Site Guide Feedback Search Subscribe Renew Gift Subscription Subscriber Help Browse >>   Books & Critics   Fiction & Poetry   Foreign Affairs   Politics & Society   Pursuits & Retreats Subscribe to our free e-mail newsletters	Facts About The Atlantic Who have been the editors of The Atlantic Monthly? Who were the founders of The Atlantic Monthly? Who gave The Atlantic Monthly its name? Where has The Atlantic Monthly been published? What is the circulation of The Atlantic? Which covers have been best sellers? How many submissions does the magazine receive each year? WHO HAVE BEEN THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY? 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, 1999-2002 James Bennet, 2006-present WHO WERE THE FOUNDERS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY? James Russell Lowell Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Oliver Wendell Holmes Francis H. Underwood John Lothrop Motley James Elliot Cabot Moses Dresser Phillips WHO GAVE THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY ITS NAME? Oliver Wendell Holmes. His first suggestion was The Atlantic Monthly Magazine, which was later shortened to The Atlantic Monthly. Now most people call it The Atlantic. WHERE HAS THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY BEEN PUBLISHED? Until 2006, always in Boston—although the issues from January, 1874, to December, 1877, bore the double imprint "Boston: H. O. Houghton & Co., New York: Hurd & Houghton." The first offices were located in The Old Corner Bookstore, 135 Washington Street. Among later addresses were 124 Tremont Street, No. 4 Park Street, Winthrop Square, 8 Arlington Street, 745 Boylston Street, and 77 North Washington Street. Since January, 2006, The Atlantic Monthly has been located in The Watergate at 600 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., in Washington, D.C. WHAT IS THE CIRCULATION OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY? Here are the circulation figures since 1915, the first year in which the number of copies sold on newsstands was accurately recorded: 1915 38,200 1920 101,900 1925 126,000 1930 126,000 1935 101,000 1940 102,000 1945 131,500 1950 169,500 1955 208,300 1960 265,234 1965 279,000 1970 328,000 1975 332,000 1980 339,000 1985 453,000 1990 468,000 1995 459,404 2000 478,861 WHICH COVERS FROM THE PAST TWENTY YEARS ARE THE BEST SELLERS? 1. The Cholesterol Myth, by Thomas J. Moore (September 1989) 2. Dan Quayle Was Right, by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (April 1993) 3. American Ground Part 1, by William Langewiesche (July/August 2002) 4. Supremacy by Stealth, by Robert D. Kaplan (July/August 2003) 5. The Roots of Muslim Rage, by Bernard Lewis (September 1990) 6. The Fall of the House of Saud, by Robert Baer (May 2003) 7. Chronic Anxiety and Defining a Self, by Michael E. Kerr (September 1988) 8. The Coming Anarchy, by Robert D. Kaplan (February 1994) 9. The Next Christianity, by Philip Jenkins (October 2002) 10. Tour of Duty, by Douglas Brinkley (December 2003) HOW MANY SUBMISSIONS DOES THE MAGAZINE RECEIVE EACH YEAR? 75,000 poems 12,000 short stories 60,000 non-fiction manuscripts and queries Copyright © 2007 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved.	[an error occurred while processing this directive]
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