Norman Cousins

editor, writer

Norman Cousins attended Columbia University. His journalistic career began in 1934, when he joined the staff of the *New York Evening Post*. The following year he moved to *Current History*, which first employed him as a book critic, subsequently as managing editor. *Current History* had its offices in the same building as the *Saturday Review of Literature*, and Cousins became friendly with members of its staff, notably Amy Loveman, Henry Seidel Canby, Christopher Morley, William Rose Benet, Harrison Smith, and editor George Stevens. In 1940 Cousins became the *Saturday Review*'s executive editor, and two years later, after Stevens's resignation, he took over the editorship and presidency.