The Smart Set

The Smart Set was a literary magazine, published 1900 until 1930.

History

The first issue of the journal was published in March 1900 in America. As The Smart Set was in 1911 sold for $ 100,000, the Friends HL Mencken and George Jean Nathan received the offer to take over the editorship. However, they rejected it and recommended Willard Huntington Wright, who retained the position for only one year.

In 1914 Eugen -bought Crowe and Eltinge F. Warner a majority stake. Mencken and Nathan could be gained to the editor this time. Both led the magazine from his crisis of falling readership and financial problems partly out again.

After 9 years gave Nathan and Mencken on their bodies. In July 1930, the last edition was published under the changed name: The New Smart Set

Overview of participating authors

• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Willa Cather
• Ben Hecht
• Carl Van Vechten
• Maxwell Anderson
• Dorothy Parker
• Dashiell Hammett
• Sinclair Lewis
• Aldous Huxley
• James Joyce
• Eugene O'Neill
• Ezra Pound
• D. H. Lawrence
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Robinson Jeffers
• O. Henry