Victor Saul Navasky
| Victor Navasky | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Victor Saul Navasky July 5, 1932 New York City, U.S. |
| Education |
Little Red School House Swarthmore College (1954) Yale Law School (1959) |
| Occupation | Journalist, publisher |
| Notable credit(s) | The Nation |
| Spouse(s) | Anne (Strongin) Navasky |
| Children | three children |
Victor Saul Navasky (born July 5, 1932) is an American journalist, editor and academic. He is publisher emeritus of The Nation and George T. Delacorte Professor Emeritus of Professional Practice in Magazine Journalism at Columbia University. He was editor of The Nation from 1978 until 1995 and its publisher and editorial director from 1995 to 2005. Navasky's book Naming Names (1980) is considered a definitive take on the Hollywood blacklist. For it he won a 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Navasky was born in New York City, the son of Esther (Goldberg) and Macy Navasky. In 1946, when he was in the eighth grade, he helped to raise money for the Irgun Zvai Leumi — by passing a contribution basket at performances of Ben Hecht’s play, A Flag is Born.
He is a graduate of Swarthmore College (1954), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received high honors in the social sciences. While serving in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956, he was stationed at Fort Richardson in Alaska. Following his discharge, he enrolled in Yale Law School on the GI Bill and received his LL.B. in 1959. While at Yale, he co-founded and edited the political satire magazine Monocle.
Before joining The Nation, Navasky was an editor at The New York Times Magazine. He also wrote a monthly column about the publishing business ("In Cold Print") for the Times Book Review.
Navasky was named the editor of The Nation in 1978. In that forum, for many years, he was immortalized in Calvin Trillin's Uncivil Liberties column as "the wily and parsimonious Victor S. Navasky," or "The W. & P." for short.
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