12 Facts About Ellery Sedgwick

Ellery Sedgwick was an American editor, brother of Henry Dwight Sedgwick.

Ellery Sedgwick was born in New York City to Henry Dwight Sedgwick II and Henrietta Ellery, grand daughter of William Ellery.

Ellery Sedgwick graduated from Groton School in 1890 and Harvard University in 1894.

Ellery Sedgwick returned to Groton in 1894 and taught Classics there until 1896.

When Sedgwick purchased the Atlantic Monthly in 1908, the monthly circulation was 15,000 and the magazine ran an annual deficit of $5,000.

Ellery Sedgwick worked quickly to reverse the trend and by 1928, he had increased circulation to 137,000.

Ellery Sedgwick has been credited with discovering many writers and with having the Atlantic Monthly to be the first national magazine to publish a work of Ernest Hemingway's.

Ellery Sedgwick resigned as editor in 1938 and sold the magazine in 1939.

Mabel Ellery Sedgwick designed the gardens at Long Hill, the 114-acre home in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Ellery Sedgwick remarried in 1939 to an Englishwoman, Marjorie Russell, who became a celebrated horticulturalist.

Sedgwick's son Ellery Jr grew to become a significant player in finance and investments, Cabot was a career diplomat with the US State Department and the father of actress and author Paulita Sedgwick, Theodora worked extensively in South-East Asia and was the wife of Brigadier General William Bond, and Henrietta became a well known horticulturalist in her own right.

Ellery Sedgwick died in 1960 in Washington, DC, and is buried in the Sedgwick family plot in Stockbridge.