Reminiscences of Andrew Heiskell, 1987

Biographical Note

Magazine executive

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education in France; LIFE magazine: history, management, coverage of World War II, church and state involvement, censorship, union relations, coverage of Vietnam war, entry into book market, decline; Time Inc.: involvement with memoirs, diversification into cable television, forest products, film, real estate and computer ventures, acquisition of Washington STAR, launch of PEOPLE magazine; head of Urban America, 1967; involvement with Harvard University and Bennington College; chairman of New York Public Library, 1978; chair of President's Committee on Arts and Humanities, 1981; Vivian Beaumont Theatre board member, 1984; reconstruction of Bryant Park; impressions of Henry Luce III, John Billings, Hedley Donovan, Roy Larsen, James Shepley

Subjects

• Bennington College.
• Book industries and trade.
• Diversification in industry.
• Federal aid to the arts.
• Harvard University.
• Heiskell, Andrew, 1915-2003--Interviews.
• Holland, Jessica, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• New York Public Library.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Periodicals--Publishing.
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Recreation areas--New York (State)--New York.
• Time.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1990