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St. Clair McKelway (February 13, 1905 – January 10, 1980) was a writer and editor for The New Yorker magazine beginning in 1933. Childhood[edit] McKelway was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Alexander McKelway, a Presbyterian minister, journalist, and child labor reformer, and Lavinia Rutherford Smith.
Mar 3, 2010 · St. Clair McKelway helped solidify the classic New Yorker style but is nearly forgotten today.
May 23, 1993 · Read St. Clair McKelway's bio and get latest news stories and articles. Connect with users and join the conversation at The New Yorker.
Feb 7, 2010 · Sent back from his high post with the Twentieth Air Force, St. Clair McKelway wrote a strange, brilliant New Yorker piece, then waited thirteen years to tell the full story.
Feb 4, 2010 · Eighty-Five from the Archive: St. Clair McKelway. By Jon Michaud. February 4, 2010. This week The New Yorker publishes its eighty-fifth anniversary issue. To celebrate, we will over the next...
Feb 14, 2010 · For 37 years, McKelway was one of the New Yorker’s most prolific and inventive nonfiction writers. In his time, he was regarded as a master of the long-form profile, a superior...
Apr 5, 2020 · St. Clair McKelway, a writer at the magazine, described a typical Thurber performance: “One after another, and sometimes more or less simultaneously, he would play the parts of his mother, his father, his grandfather (offstage), his brothers . . . and a dog . . . in addition to playing himself.”
