{"value"=>"<p>Katharine White (1892-1977) started at the magazine in 1925 as a part-time reader of manuscripts. Soon she became a full-time editor, and in 1936 became Fiction editor. Throughout her career with the magazine she was, next to Ross, the most consistent and thorough critic of the magazine. Her critiques and suggestions are spread throughout the collection. Married to Ernest Angell when she began her career at the magazine, she later divorced her husband and married E. B. White in 1929. The Whites lived in Maine from 1938-1943, during which time Katharine continued working as an editor for the magazine, although Gus Lobrano served as Fiction editor from 1938-1956. The Whites returned to New York during World War II and stayed until 1957. During this time she reviewed children's books for the New Yorker; compiled, with her husband, A Sub-Treasury of American Humor; and later wrote a series on gardening, \"Onward and Upward in the Garden.\" She retired in 1961.</p> <p>These records relate mainly to White's work on A Sub-Treasury of American Humor (1941). It also includes White's list of potential writers, and a few personal letters.</p>"}