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Bernard Augustine De Voto

Bernard DeVoto wrote the Easy Chair column for Harper’s Magazine from 1935 until his death in 1955. He was the fifth to commit to the oldest column in American journalism and the third to die while holding the position, but, according to Lewis H. Lapham, who would assume the Chair several decades on and rename it Notebook, it was DeVoto who “found the clearest expression of its purpose.” The Easy Chair—“a column always grotesquely misnamed,” Lapham lamented—was born into low…

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