William Whitworth, Revered Writer and Editor, Is Dead at 87
Briefly

He polished the prose of some of the nation's celebrated writers as its associate editor before transplanting that magazine's painstaking standards to The Atlantic, where he was editor in chief for 20 years.
At The New Yorker, he injected wit into pensive Talk of the Town vignettes. He also profiled the famous and the not so famous, including jazz greats and foreign policy advisers.
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