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The ''Chicagoan'' was an American magazine modeled after the ''New Yorker'' published from June 1926 until April 1935. Focusing on the cultural life of the city of Chicago, each issue of the ''Chicagoan'' contained art, music, and drama reviews, profiles of personalities and institutions, commentaries on the local scene, and editorials, along with cartoons and original art. In an early issue, the ''Chicagoans editors claimed to represent "a cultural, civilized and vibrant" city "which needs make no obeisance to Park Avenue, Mayfair, or the Champs Elysees." Despite its lofty aims, the stalwart assertions of publisher Martin J. Quigley (who once wrote that "Whatever Chicago was and was to be, the ''Chicagoan'' must be and become"), and a circulation that sometimes rose above 20,000, the magazine was largely forgotten after its last issue.〔Neil Harris, ''The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age.'' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008), 1-27.〕 Only two substantial collections remain, one at the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library and the other at the New York Public Library. Cultural historian Neil Harris has recently written a book on the subject, ''The Chicagoan: A Lost History of the Jazz Age'' (the University of Chicago Press). == Authors == Marie Armstrong Hecht (1892-?). First editor of the ''Chicagoan'', a writer and literary critic. Married to journalist-author Ben Hecht from 1915 to 1925. Marie Hecht published several volumes of poetry in the 1920s and created or adapted some Broadway plays in the 1920s and 1930s. Under a later married name, Marie Essipoff, she produced a number of books in the 1950s emphasizing economical cooking with new techniques, including ''Making the Most of Your Food Freezer''.〔Harris, 371〕 Richard Atwater, "Riq" (1892–1948). Born in Chicago as Frederick Mund Atwater, he attended the University of Chicago, where he wrote for the student newspaper and later taught Classical Greek. He went on to work for various local newspapers, including the ''Chicago Daily News'', the ''Chicago Tribune'', and the ''Herald-Examiner''. With his wife, Florence Atwater, in 1938 he coauthored ''Mr. Popper's Penguins'', which won the Newbery Medal.〔Harris, 370〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Chicagoan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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