Poetic Obituaries: After earning a bachelor's degree

in 1958 from Harvard and performing six months' active duty in the Army Reserves, he [Arthur Whitney Ellsworth] was hired at The Atlantic Monthly.

As publisher of The New York Review of Books, Mr. Ellsworth expanded the journal's presence abroad by publishing a British edition, distributed by a London cabdriver with whom he struck up an acquaintance. In 1979, taking advantage of a strike that halted publication of The Times Literary Supplement, he helped create The London Review of Books, published for its first six months as an insert in The New York Review of Books.

from The New York Times: A. Whitney Ellsworth, First Publisher of New York Review, Dies at 75

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