Ellery Sedgwick succeeds Bliss Perry as editor of The Atlantic Monthly.

Sedgwick lives at 14 Walnut Street. Edward Weeks succeeds him from 1938 to 1966.* During the tenure of these two men, the magazine becomes one of the most influential in the English-speaking world. Its contributors include: Felix Frankfurter, Carl Jung, Walter Lippmann, Andre Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Virginia Woolf, and W.B. Yeats.