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Shawn, William

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Personal name headingShawn, William
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Variant(s)Chon, William
Birth date1907-08-31
Death date1992-12-08
Place of birthChicago (Ill.)
Place of deathUpper East Side (New York, N.Y.)
Profession or occupationPeriodical editors
Found inFlanner, J. Paris journal, 1988, c1971: CIP t.p. (William Shawn)
LC data base, 2/18/88 (hdg.: Shawn, William)
New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 21, 2017 (in obituary published Dec. 9, 1992: William Shawn; b. Aug. 31, 1907, Chicago, to Benjamin W. and Anna Bransky Chon; changed his name early in his career; d. yesterday morning [Dec. 8, 1992], Upper East Side of Manhattan, aged 85; shy, strong-willed editor who ran The New Yorker for a third of this century)