Katharine Sergeant Angell White (born Katharine Sergeant; September 17, 1892 – July 20, 1977) was an American writer and the fiction editor for ''The New Yorker'' magazine from 1925 to 1960. In her obituary, printed in ''The New Yorker'' in 1977, William Shawn wrote, "More than any other editor except Harold Ross himself, Katharine White gave ''The New Yorker'' its shape, and set it on its course."
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