Mollie Panter-Downes
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New Yorker magazine, but she also wrote travel articles, reviews, poetry, novels, short stories, and children's literature. From 1938 to 1987, her contributions to the New Yorker totalled 852 pieces. Her journalism took note of the trivial, ordinary things that happened to ordinary people, while her short stories and novels often tackled the human spirit under times of great distress. She was so closely associated with the New Yorker that she was often thought . . . to be American.
specialized in wartime journalism for the