Byron Dobell

Byron Dobell was the Editor of American Heritage for eight years, during which time the magazine won or was a finalist for a National Magazine Award ten times.

Before joining American Heritage, Dobell served as editor-in-chief of the Washington Post Book World, executive editor of New York Magazine, and editor of Esquire.

Dobell was elected to the American Society of Magazine Editors’s Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame in 1998.

Articles by this Author

Mining For Pictures, December 1985 | Vol. 37, No. 1

American Medicine, October/November 1984 | Vol. 35, No. 6

Monuments, August/September 1984 | Vol. 35, No. 5

Quotations Wanted, June/July 1984 | Vol. 35, No. 4

Putting It Together, April/May 1984 | Vol. 35, No. 3

Thirty Years Later, December 1984 | Vol. 36, No. 1

Letter From The Editor, August/september 1983 | Vol. 34, No. 5

Digging More Deeply

A Minor Character, June/july 1983 | Vol. 34, No. 4

Down To The Sea, April/May 1983 | Vol. 34, No. 3

U.S. Celluloid, December 1983 | Vol. 35, No. 1

The American Press, October/November 1982 | Vol. 33, No. 6

Keeping Shop, August/September 1982 | Vol. 33, No. 5

Homage To Clio, June/july 1982 | Vol. 33, No. 4

Young America, December 1982 | Vol. 34, No. 1

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