Clay Felker
| Clay Felker | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Clay Schuette Felker October 2, 1925 Webster Groves, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | July 1, 2008 (aged 82) New York, New York, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Throat cancer |
| Residence | New York City |
| Education | Duke University |
| Occupation | Journalist, editor |
| Known for | Founded New York Magazine |
| Board member of | Duke Magazine Editorial Board |
| Spouse(s) | Leslie Blatt (m. 1949-div. 19??) Pamela Tiffin (m. 1962; div. 1969) Gail Sheehy (m. 1984) |
| Parent(s) | Carl Felker Cora Tyree |
Clay Schuette Felker (October 2, 1925 – July 1, 2008) was an American magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968. He was known for bringing large numbers of journalists into the profession.The New York Times wrote in 1995, "Few journalists have left a more enduring imprint on late 20th-century journalism—an imprint that was unabashedly mimicked even as it was being mocked—than Clay Felker."
He was born in 1925 in Webster Groves, Missouri, the son of Carl Felker, an editor of The Sporting News, and his wife, the former Cora Tyree, the former women's editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Both of Clay's parents along with a grandfather and a grandmother graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He had one sibling, Charlotte. Felker's grandfather, Henry Clay Felker, of German aristocratic origins, fled Germany after the 1848 Conservative takeover. The family surname was originally von Fredrikstein.
Felker attended Duke University, where he first became interested in journalism and edited the student newspaper, The Duke Chronicle. He left school in 1943 to join the Navy, but returned to the school to graduate in 1951. In 1983, he founded the Editorial Board for the alumni publication Duke Magazine. Duke awarded Felker an honorary degree in 1998, as well as the Futrell Award for Excellence in Communications and Journalism.Duke Magazine created the staff position of Clay Felker Fellow for "an aspiring journalist with unusual promise."
After graduation, Felker worked as a sportswriter for Life Magazine. He turned an article he wrote about Casey Stengel into a 1961 book, Casey Stengel's Secret. He was on the development team for Sports Illustrated and was features editor for Esquire. He later worked for TIME.
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