Discipline: Literature

Robert McLaughlin

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1964
Robert McLaughlin (1908-1973) was an American journalist and author. He was an editor at Time magazine for more than 20 years (1948–1969). He was the author of numerous short stories, three novels, and The Heartland, a volume in the Time-Life Library of America series. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, and went to New York City early in the 1930s, establishing himself as a well-published writer of short stories. He was the managing editor of McCall's magazine during the early 1940s until he was called to duty in the U.S. Army during World War II. He came to prominence during WW-II with his short stories about army life in The New Yorker. A collection of the stories was published in 1945 as A Short Wait Between Trains. Following the war, he joined the staff of Time magazine as a contributing editor. He remained there for more than 20 years, working in 23 of the magazine's departments. In addition to his short stories, he was the author of three novels, The Side of the Angels (1947), The Walls of Heaven (1951), and The Notion of Sin (1959).

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Sorosis

Robert McLaughlin worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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