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class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Journalist, editor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Co-founded <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a></i> magazine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Board member of</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Duke Magazine</i> Editorial Board</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Leslie Blatt <span class="nowrap">(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1949-<abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 19??)</span><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Pamela_Tiffin" title="Pamela Tiffin">Pamela Tiffin</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1962; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1969)<wbr /></div><br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Gail_Sheehy" title="Gail Sheehy">Gail Sheehy</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1984)<wbr /></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Clay Schuette Felker</b> (October 2, 1925 – July 1, 2008) was an American magazine editor and journalist who co-founded <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a></i> magazine in 1968 and <i><a href="/wiki/California_(magazine,_defunct_1991)" title="California (magazine, defunct 1991)">California</a></i> magazine (first known as <i>New West</i>) in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was known for bringing numerous journalists into the profession.<sup id="cite_ref-duke_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-duke-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> wrote in 1995, "Few journalists have left a more enduring imprint on late 20th-century journalism—an imprint that was unabashedly mimicked even as it was being mocked—than Clay Felker."<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clay_Felker&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was born in 1925 in <a href="/wiki/Webster_Groves,_Missouri" title="Webster Groves, Missouri">Webster Groves, Missouri</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> son of Carl Felker, an editor of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sporting_News" title="The Sporting News">The Sporting News</a></i>, and his wife, the former Cora Tyree, the former women's editor of the <i><a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Post-Dispatch" title="St. Louis Post-Dispatch">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a></i>. Both of Clay's parents, along with a grandfather and a grandmother, graduated from the <a href="/wiki/Missouri_School_of_Journalism" title="Missouri School of Journalism">University of Missouri School of Journalism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had one sibling, Charlotte. Felker's grandfather, Henry Clay Felker, of German aristocratic origins, fled Germany after the 1848 Conservative takeover.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family surname was originally von Fredrikstein.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Felker attended <a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a>, where he first became interested in journalism and edited the student newspaper, <i>The <a href="/wiki/Duke_Chronicle" title="Duke Chronicle">Duke Chronicle</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-duke_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-duke-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He left school in 1943 to join the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">Navy</a>, but returned to the school to graduate in 1951.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1983, he founded the editorial board for the alumni publication <i>Duke Magazine</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-duke_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-duke-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Duke awarded Felker an <a href="/wiki/Honorary_degree" title="Honorary degree">honorary degree</a> in 1998, as well as the Futrell Award for Excellence in Communications and Journalism.<sup id="cite_ref-duke_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-duke-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Duke Magazine</i> created the staff position of Clay Felker Fellow for "an aspiring journalist with unusual promise."<sup id="cite_ref-duke_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-duke-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clay_Felker&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After graduation, Felker worked as a <a href="/wiki/Sportswriter" class="mw-redirect" title="Sportswriter">sportswriter</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/Life_(magazine)" title="Life (magazine)">Life</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He developed an article he wrote about <a href="/wiki/Casey_Stengel" title="Casey Stengel">Casey Stengel</a> as a full-length book, <i>Casey Stengel's Secret</i> (1961). He was on the development team for <i><a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a></i> and was features editor for <i><a href="/wiki/Esquire_(magazine)" title="Esquire (magazine)">Esquire</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later worked for <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>. </p><p>Felker gave <a href="/wiki/Gloria_Steinem" title="Gloria Steinem">Gloria Steinem</a> what she later called her first "serious assignment", regarding <a href="/wiki/Contraception" class="mw-redirect" title="Contraception">contraception</a>; he didn't like her first draft and had her re-write the article.<sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her resulting 1962 article,<sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> about the way in which women are forced to choose between a career and marriage, preceded <a href="/wiki/Betty_Friedan" title="Betty Friedan">Betty Friedan</a>'s book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique" title="The Feminine Mystique">The Feminine Mystique</a></i> by one year. Steinem joined the founding staff of Felker's <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a></i> magazine and became politically active in the feminist movement. Felker funded the first issue of <i><a href="/wiki/Ms._(magazine)" title="Ms. (magazine)">Ms.</a></i> magazine, founded by Steinem and other feminist leaders.<sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After losing a battle for <i>Esquire</i> editorship to <a href="/wiki/Harold_Hayes" title="Harold Hayes">Harold Hayes</a>, Felker left to join <i>The <a href="/wiki/New_York_Herald_Tribune" title="New York Herald Tribune">New York Herald Tribune</a></i> in 1962. He revamped a Sunday section into <i>New York</i> and hired writers such as <a href="/wiki/Tom_Wolfe" title="Tom Wolfe">Tom Wolfe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Breslin" title="Jimmy Breslin">Jimmy Breslin</a>. The section became the "hottest Sunday read in town."<sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A long-time friend of Wolfe, Felker was one of the early proponents of <a href="/wiki/New_Journalism" title="New Journalism">New Journalism</a> and key to its emergence.<sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Herald_Tribune" title="New York Herald Tribune">New York Herald Tribune</a></i> closed its doors in 1966. Felker later, in 1968,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reconstituted the Sunday section as <a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)"><i>New York</i></a> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After founding <i>New York</i> in 1968, one of his first features was Wolfe's coverage of <a href="/wiki/Ken_Kesey" title="Ken Kesey">Ken Kesey</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Merry_Pranksters" title="Merry Pranksters">Merry Pranksters</a>. Wolfe expanded this account into his <a href="/wiki/Non-fiction_novel" title="Non-fiction novel">non-fiction novel</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Test" title="The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test">The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test</a></i>. </p><p><i>New York</i> became one of the most imitated magazines of its time, both from a design perspective and in the way it combined service and life-style articles. "He had the crass but revolutionary (revolutionary in the sense that it overthrew generations of class conceits) notion that you are what you buy. He sniffed the great consumer revolution with its social, political, and aesthetic implications. And <i>New York Magazine</i> became the first magazine to spell out where to get the goods (and at the best price)", wrote <a href="/wiki/Michael_Wolff_(journalist)" title="Michael Wolff (journalist)">Michael Wolff</a> about Felker in <i>New York</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> 35th anniversary issue.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Felker became editor-in-chief and publisher of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Village_Voice" title="The Village Voice">The Village Voice</a></i> in 1974; he resigned from <i>New York</i> following its <a href="/wiki/Hostile_takeover" class="mw-redirect" title="Hostile takeover">hostile takeover</a> by <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch">Rupert Murdoch</a> in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He bought <i><a href="/wiki/Esquire_(magazine)" title="Esquire (magazine)">Esquire</a></i> in 1977 but sold it in 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Felker in 1988 also bought the lower <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> paper <i>Downtown Express</i>, but sold it in 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1976, Felker founded <i>New West</i> as <i>New York'</i>s sister publication covering the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">West Coast</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pt2_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pt2-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nytlaunch_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytlaunch-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It featured writers such as Wolfe, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Didion" title="Joan Didion">Joan Didion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Eszterhas" title="Joe Eszterhas">Joe Eszterhas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pt2_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pt2-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>New West</i> was purchased by <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch">Rupert Murdoch</a> in 1977. In 1980, it was sold to Mediatex Communications Corp., which published <i><a href="/wiki/Texas_Monthly" title="Texas Monthly">Texas Monthly</a></i>. Mediatex changed the name of the magazine to <i>California</i> in 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-pt2_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pt2-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The magazine's circulation peaked at about 360,000 in 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-pt1_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pt1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1991, circulation had dropped to 250,000 and it was shut down.<sup id="cite_ref-pt1_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pt1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1987, Felker became editor of the business magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Manhattan,_inc." title="Manhattan, inc.">Manhattan, inc.</a></i>, staying on as editor when it was sold and merged with the lifestyle magazine <i>M</i> into <i>M, inc.</i><sup id="cite_ref-Spy_1990_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spy_1990-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1990, <a href="/wiki/Spy_(magazine)" title="Spy (magazine)"><i>Spy</i></a> magazine portrayed Felker as out of touch with his former milieu and in charge of a series of money-losing journalistic enterprises.<sup id="cite_ref-Spy_1990_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spy_1990-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1994, Felker became a lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a>. He taught a course called "How to Make a Magazine" at the Felker Magazine Center, named in his honor and of which he became director.<sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Felker's stylish but detached role as the founder and editor of <i>New York</i> magazine led some observers to compare him with another American mid-Westerner who went east—albeit a fictional one, <a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">Scott Fitzgerald</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Jay_Gatsby" title="Jay Gatsby">Jay Gatsby</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (June 2015)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clay_Felker&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Felker was married three times: </p> <ul><li>Leslie Blatt, a fellow Duke undergraduate, in 1949; they divorced, and she subsequently married John W. Aldridge, a literary critic, and later Charles Westoff, a Princeton University professor. She died November 9, 2014, in Palm Beach, Florida.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pamela_Tiffin" title="Pamela Tiffin">Pamela Tiffin</a>, an actress and fashion model, whom he married in 1962 and divorced in 1969; she died in 2020.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gail_Sheehy" title="Gail Sheehy">Gail Sheehy</a>, a writer, in 1984. By this marriage he had a daughter, Mohm Sheehy, whom Sheehy adopted from <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>, and a stepdaughter, Maura Sheehy Moss.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clay_Felker&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Felker died on July 1, 2008, in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> from what his wife, Gail Sheehy, described as "natural causes", following a long battle with throat cancer.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tributes">Tributes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clay_Felker&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Tributes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tom Wolfe said: "He ranks with <a href="/wiki/Henry_Luce" title="Henry Luce">Henry Luce</a> of <i>Time</i>, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Ross" title="Harold Ross">Harold Ross</a> of the <i>New Yorker</i> and <a href="/wiki/Jann_Wenner" title="Jann Wenner">Jann Wenner</a> of <i>Rolling Stone</i> in that these are all people that brought out magazines that had a new take on life in America."<sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The former editor-in-chief of <i>New York</i>, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Moss" title="Adam Moss">Adam Moss</a>, wrote after Felker's death: "American journalism would not be what it is today without Clay Felker. He created a kind of magazine that had never been seen before, told a kind of story that had never been told."<sup id="cite_ref-la_times_6-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-la_times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clay_Felker&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-nytobit-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nytobit_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytobit_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytobit_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytobit_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytobit_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nytobit_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCarmody2008" class="citation news cs1">Carmody, Deirdre (July 1, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/business/media/02felker.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all">"Clay Felker, Magazine Pioneer, Dies at 82"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2008-07-01</span></span>. <q>Clay Felker, a visionary editor who was widely credited with inventing the formula for the modern magazine, giving it energetic expression in a glossy weekly named for and devoted to the boisterous city that fascinated him — New York — died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82. His death was of natural causes, said his wife, the author Gail Sheehy. 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Start Spreading the News: "New York" Fights Back. <i>Flashes & Flames</i> (blog).</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clay_Felker&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight</i> by Marc Weingarten (2006)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clay_Felker&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/28px-P_vip.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/41px-P_vip.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/55px-P_vip.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1911" data-file-height="1944" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Biography" title="Portal:Biography">Biography portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080705095029/http://alumni.berkeley.edu/Alumni/Cal_Monthly/May_2005/City_of_Clay.asp">City of Clay: a collection of tributes</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080703231152/http://journalism.berkeley.edu/faculty/felker/">Faculty Profile at Berkeley</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/28/BU156183.DTL&type=tech_article">Interview in SF Chronicle</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/literaryjournali00appl/page/87">Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nymag.com/news/media/48341/">Tom Wolfe on How Clay Felker Changed New York</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nymag.com/news/media/48343/">Gloria Steinem, Gore Vidal and others remember Clay Felker</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/felkerclay/">Clay Felker Papers</a>. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flashesandflames.com/2015/06/start-spreading-the-news-new-york-fights-back/">"Start spreading the news: 'New York' fights back"</a>, flashesandflames.com. June 10, 2015. 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