How an urbane New Yorker spun an enchanting children’s classic

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By Michael Sims

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The New Yorker’s contribution to great literature goes without saying.

Since its launch in 1925, the magazine has nurtured the careers of everyone from JD Salinger and Frank O’Connor to Maeve Brennan and Alice Munro. But the offices of the magazine also housed a staff member who would ...