LC control no. | n 87930328 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Shawn, William |
Variant(s) | Chon, William |
Birth date | 1907-08-31 |
Death date | 1992-12-08 |
Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
Place of death | Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) |
Profession or occupation | Periodical editors |
Found in | Flanner, 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) |