Poetic Obituaries: In the 1970s he [Ted Solotaroff] founded New American Review,

later American Review, a paperback literary magazine that was among the most widely read and influential of its time. In one edition, American Review might feature new work by Phillip Roth, whom Solotaroff befriended as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, or E.L. Doctorow, alongside fiction and poetry and essays from previously unknown writers. Before founding the magazine, Solotaroff had been the books editor of the New York Herald Tribune.

from The Jewish Daily Forward: Ted Solotaroff, 79, Mensch of Letters

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