Horizon (U.S. magazine)

"Horizon" was a magazine published in the United States from 1958 to 1989. Originally published by "American Heritage" as a bi-monthly hardback, "Horizon" was subtitled "A Magazine of the Arts". In 1978 Boone Inc. bought the magazine, which continued to cover the arts. Publication ceased in March 1989.

American Heritage years

The history magazine and book publisher "American Heritage" began "Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts" as a hardback bi-monthly in September 1958. The editor was Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr., with James Parton as publisher. Contributors in the early years included architectural critic Allan Temko; art critic Russell Lynes, biologist Julian Huxley; composers Igor Stravinsky and Leonard B. Meyer; drama critic Robert Brustein; economist John Kenneth Galbraith; filmmaker Ingmar Bergman; historian Hugh Trevor-Roper; journalist Fernand Auberjonois; literary critic Carlos Baker; novelist Jean Stafford; poet Frank O'Hara; screenwriter D. M. Marshman, Jr., travel writer Freya Stark; and essayists Lesley Blanch, Geoffrey Grigson, Gilbert Highet, Walter Karp, Raymond Postgate, Francis Steegmuller and Irving Stone.

"American Heritage" also published books under the "Horizon" name, such as 1961's "Horizon Book of the Renaissance", by Richard M. Ketchum and J. H. Plumb (OCLC|283425).

Boone years

"Horizon" moved from New York City to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in December 1978. The new owner was Boone Inc., with editor and publisher Gray D. Boone. Contributors included Robert Joffrey, Alan Rich, Lanford Wilson, Ray Bradbury and Brendan Gill. Publication ceased eleven years later, with volume 32, number 2, March/April 1989. [ [http://web.cuny.edu/academics/info-central/library.html CUNY Union Catalog] , Graduate Center, City University of New York. See: ISSN|0018-4977.]

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