The American Mercury

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Title:	The American Mercury
Also known as:	New American Mercury
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More information:	Wikipedia article; Wikidata
First issue:	January 1924 (v. 1 no. 1)
First renewed issue:	February 1931 (v. 22 no. 86), © January 23, 1931; see 1959 January-June
First renewed contribution in:	February 1931 (v. 22 no. 86); see 1958 July-December
See also:	Americana

Renewed issues

This includes all active issue renewals prior to 1964, when automatic renewals began. It might not show all renewals from 1964 onward.

February 1931 (v. 22 no. 86), © January 23, 1931
March 1931 (v. 22 no. 87)
April 1931 (v. 22 no. 88)
May 1931 (v. 23 no. 89)
June 1931 (v. 23 no. 90)
July 1931 (v. 23 no. 91)
August 1931 (v. 23 no. 92)
September 1931 (v. 24 no. 93)
October 1931 (v. 24 no. 94)
November 1931 (v. 24 no. 95)
December 1931 (v. 24 no. 96)
January 1932 (v. 25 no. 97), © December 24, 1931
February 1932 (v. 25 no. 98), © January 25, 1932
March 1932 (v. 25 no. 99)
April 1932 (v. 25 no. 100)
May 1932 (v. 26 no. 101)
June 1932 (v. 26 no. 102)
July 1932 (v. 26 no. 103)
August 1932 (v. 26 no. 104)
September 1932 (v. 27 no. 105)
October 1932 (v. 27 no. 106)
November 1932 (v. 27 no. 107)
December 1932 (v. 27 no. 108)
January 1933 (v. 28 no. 109), © December 23, 1932
February 1933 (v. 28 no. 110), © January 25, 1933
March 1933 (v. 28 no. 111)
April 1933 (v. 28 no. 112)
May 1933 (v. 29 no. 113)
June 1933 (v. 29 no. 114)
July 1933 (v. 29 no. 115)
August 1933 (v. 29 no. 116)
September 1933 (v. 30 no. 117)
October 1933 (v. 30 no. 118)
November 1933 (v. 30 no. 119)
December 1933 (v. 30 no. 120)

Renewed contributions

This includes all active contribution renewals prior to 1964, when automatic renewals began. It might not show all renewals from 1964 onward.

February 1931: "Evacuation Hospital", by Louis Gold
March 1931: "That Evening Sun", by William Faulkner [Permissions]
March 1931: "Bug-House Camp", by Stewart H. Holbrook
May 1931: "Hair", by William Faulkner [Permissions]
June 1931: "High Summer" (part 1 of 5), by Booth Tarkington
July 1931: "High Summer" (part 2 of 5), by Booth Tarkington
August 1931: "High Summer" (part 3 of 5), by Booth Tarkington
September 1931: "High Summer" (part 4 of 5), by Booth Tarkington
September 1931: "Laura Jean Libbey", by Louis Gold
October 1931: "Extra Gang", by H. L. Davis [Permissions]
October 1931: "High Summer" (part 5 of 5), by Booth Tarkington
October 1931: "Americans in the South Seas", by Robert Dean Frisbie
February 1932: "Centaur in Brass", by William Faulkner [Permissions]
May 1932: "Rum-Row: Western", by Robert Dean Frisbie
July 1932: "Man Called Spade", by Dashiell Hammett [Permissions]
October 1932: "Crazy Sunday", by F. Scott Fitzgerald [Permissions]
October 1932: "Too Many Have Lived", by Dashiell Hammett [Permissions]
December 1932: "The Natural History of Seattle", by James Stevens
January 1933: "The Baby in the Icebox", by James M. Cain [Permissions]
April 1933: "Prelude. If Man, That Angel of Bright Consciousness", by Conrad Aiken [Permissions]
May 1933: "Man Who Looked Like Himself", by Erskine Caldwell [Permissions]
July 1933: "Backfire", by Phil Stong
September 1933: "Magenta", by Thomas Hornsby Ferril
February 1934: "Pennsylvania Station", by William Faulkner [Permissions]
March 1934: "Mrs. Stephen Crane", by Thomas Beer
March 1934: "Natives Don't Cry", by Kay Boyle Franckenstein
April 1934: "Evening Dialogue", by Arthur Davison Ficke
April 1934: "Earliest Dreams", by Nancy Hale [Permissions]
May 1934: "Boom Town", by Thomas Wolfe [Permissions]
May 1934: "Aspirin is a Member of the N.R.A.", by William Saroyan [Permissions]
June 1934: "Playboy", by Thomas Beer
July 1934: "The American Fascists", by George E. Sokolsky
August 1934: "Ah-Ha, Ah-Ha", by William Saroyan [Permissions]
August 1934: "The Stork in New York", by Louis Gold
October 1934: "Myself Upon the Earth", by William Saroyan [Permissions]
November 1934: "Conduct of a Grandfather", by Thomas Beer
April 1935: "Heat Wave", by Pearl S. Buck [Permissions]
May 1935: "Golden Land", by William Faulkner [Permissions]
July 1935: "That Will Be Fine", by William Faulkner [Permissions]
July 1935: "Lady Before Breakfast", by E. B. White [Permissions]
August 1935: "Guayana Gold", by Thomas Rourke
August 1935: "Don't Give it a Thought", by Richard Sherman
October 1935: "Uncle Willy", by William Faulkner [Permissions]
October 1935: "Close Harmony", by James M. Cain [Permissions]
October 1935: "Auctioneers of Paradise", by Hassoldt Davis
November 1935: "Folklore of the Air", by William Faulkner [Permissions]
December 1935: "Washington Up-to-Date; Review of Bedoyere's Washington", by Rupert Hughes
December 1935: "Ahead of All", by David Thompson Watson McCord
January 1936: "Sherlock Holmes vs. Arsene Lupin", by Fletcher Pratt [Permissions]
February 1936: "Dead Man", by James M. Cain [Permissions]
March 1936: "W. H. Hudson", by Ford Madox Ford [Permissions]
April 1936: "Galsworthy", by Ford Madox Ford [Permissions]
May 1936: "Portrait of a Gentleman", by Jerome Weidman [Permissions]
May 1936: "The Man With Horns", by Thomas Rourke
May 1936: "H. G. Wells", by Ford Madox Ford [Permissions]
June 1936: "D. H. Lawrence", by Ford Madox Ford [Permissions]
July 1936: "Though I Am False", by Lenore Marshall
August 1936: "Never Fear", by Lenore Marshall
August 1936: "The Bell Remembered", by Thomas Wolfe [Permissions]
August 1936: "Absalom, Absalom!", by William Faulkner [Permissions]
August 1936: "Thomas Hardy", by Ford Madox Ford [Permissions]
September 1936: "I Knew What I Was Doing", by Jerome Weidman [Permissions]
September 1936: "Turgenev, the Beautiful Genius", by Ford Madox Ford [Permissions]
October 1936: "Fame and the Poet", by Thomas Wolfe [Permissions]
November 1936: "Portrait of My Father", by Pearl S. Buck [Permissions]
December 1936: "The Original Nature Man", by Stewart H. Holbrook
December 1936: "The Sound of Running Feet", by Josephine Lawrence
January 1937: "Swinburne", by Ford Madox Ford [Permissions]
March 1937: "Housman", by Witter Bynner [Permissions]
May 1937: "Itinerant Bird", by Witter Bynner [Permissions]
May 1937: "Happy Ending", by Whitfield Cook [Permissions]
June 1937: "Dear Mr. Flessheimer", by Whitfield Cook [Permissions]
June 1937: "Old-Fashioned Social Security", by Della T. Lutes
July 1937: "Death of a Gallant Gentleman", by Witter Bynner [Permissions]
September 1937: "April, Late April", by Thomas Wolfe [Permissions]
January 1938: "The Good Wife", by Whitfield Cook [Permissions]
February 1938: "In Flood and Dearth", by Sara Henderson Hay
March 1938: "Pastorale", by James M. Cain [Permissions]
December 1938: "Home by Midnight", by Jerome Weidman [Permissions]
February 1939: "On Contemplating an Open Fire", by Sara Henderson Hay
March 1939: "Here Comes the Bridegroom", by Whitfield Cook [Permissions]
April 1939: "Portrait of a Literary Critic", by Thomas Wolfe [Permissions]
May 1939: "Getting on in the World", by Morley Callaghan [Permissions]
June 1939: "Peep Show", by Leonard Q. Ross [Permissions] (Author is Leo Rosten writing under a pseudonym.)
July 1939: "Little Family", by Nancy Hale [Permissions]
September 1939: "Husbands Grow on Trees", by Whitfield Cook [Permissions]
November 1939: "Ungathered Grapes", by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
February 1940: "Bell-Wethers", by Witter Bynner [Permissions]
February 1940: "Shoe Shine", by Jerome Weidman [Permissions]
March 5, 1940: "Down to Earth", by Alan Devoe (A portion of the book with this title was published in the American Mercury, according to its CCE renewal record. The date of publication is as given in the record, but is probably not the date on the issue itself. I do not know if the title of the contribution was also 'Down to Earth' or something else.)
April 1940: "Kit Carson", by Stewart H. Holbrook
August 1940: "The Hollyhock Sowers", by Thomas Wolfe [Permissions]
November 1940: "Woman and Man", by Paul Engle [Permissions]
December 1940: "Little Luke Short", by Stewart H. Holbrook
December 1940: "Round Trip", by Whitfield Cook [Permissions]
October 1941: "The Anatomy of Loneliness", by Thomas Wolfe [Permissions]
December 1941: "Summary", by David Cornel De Jong
December 1941: "Pennsylvania's Greatest Rogue", by Herbert Asbury
December 1941: "Handout", by John D. Weaver [Permissions]
March 1942: "Coal Oil Johnny", by Herbert Asbury
July 1942: "He Swung and He Missed", by Nelson Algren [Permissions]
July 1942: "The Legend of Sir Stafford Cripps", by Alice-Leone Moats
December 1942: "The ABC of Heart Disease", by Peter Joseph Steincrohn
December 1942: "Cycle in Mink", by Vicki Baum [Permissions]
March 1943: "Lumberjacks' Saturday Night", by Stewart H. Holbrook
April 1943: "The Gentle Rain", by John D. Weaver [Permissions]
July 1943: "General Mihailovich", by Ruth Mitchell
September 1943: "The Children", by Nelson Algren [Permissions]
December 1943: "The Wildest Man in the West", by Stewart H. Holbrook
April 1944: "Boston's Temple of Burlesque", by Stewart H. Holbrook
June 1944: "The Guy Who Named Tombstone", by Stewart H. Holbrook
October 1944: "Scollay Square", by Stewart H. Holbrook
November 1944: "Harvest", by Mary Deasy
November 1944: "My Brother Who Talked With Horses", by Morton Thompson
January 1945: "Memo on Anti-Semitism", by Philip Wylie [Permissions]
May 1945: "East and West", by Pearl S. Buck [Permissions]
August 1945: "The Big Black and White Game", by Ray Bradbury [Permissions]
August 1945: "The Grieving Wind", by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
December 1945: "Line Gale", by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
January 1946: "Idaho Nocturne: 1909", by James Stevens
March 1946: "Boston Nocturne", by Stewart H. Holbrook
April 1946: "The Last Wobbly", by Stewart H. Holbrook
September 1946: "Buffalo Bill", by Stewart H. Holbrook
October 1946: "Honor", by William Faulkner [Permissions] (I do not know how closely this resembles his American Mercury contribution of the same title from 1930.)
November 1946: "Atlantis: The Lost Continent", by H. A. Calahan
January 1947: "The Face on the Barroom Floor", by Nelson Algren [Permissions]
January 1947: "Boom Town", by Thomas Wolfe [Permissions] (I do not know how closely this resembles his American Mercury contribution of the same title from 1934.)
February 1947: "Calamity Jane", by Stewart H. Holbrook
May 1947: "Ned Buntline", by Stewart H. Holbrook
July 1947: "Blood Pressure, High and Low", by Peter Joseph Steincrohn
July 1947: "Second Boyhood", by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
July 1947: "Miss Helen Lang", by Robert Hillyer
October 1947: "Incurable Multiple Sclerosis", by Howard A. Rusk
January 1948: "The Bank the James Boys Didn't Rob", by Stewart H. Holbrook
January 1948: "State of Maine", by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
February 1948: "Golden Boy", by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
August 1948: "In the Good Old Summertime", by Helen Eustis
November 1948: "What Can be Done for Cerebral Palsy", by Howard A. Rusk
February 1949: "Six Boys in the Sun", by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
March 1949: "The Color of the World", by Evan S. Connell [Permissions]
March 1949: "Cool Bell", by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
April 1949: "Tales of the Coyote", by J. Frank Dobie [Permissions]
June 1949: "Capone's Successors", by John Bartlow Martin [Permissions]
October 1949: "Mister Churchill", by Virginia Cowles (This contribution was renewed on its own, and also appears to be a portion of the author's 1949 book 'No Cause for Alarm', which also has its own renewal record.)
December 1949: "The Summer of Insistent Voices", by John Bell Clayton
January 1950: "The Coming Defeat of Communism", by James Burnham (A chapter of the book with this title was published in the American Mercury, according to its 1978 CCE renewal record. I do not know if the title of the contribution was also 'The Coming Defeat of Communism' or something else.)
March 1950: "MacDougal's Wife", by Walter M. Miller [Permissions]
September 1950: "The Baby in the Icebox", by James M. Cain [Permissions] (I do not know how closely this resembles his American Mercury contribution of the same title from 1933.)
October 1950: "MacArthur: Man of Controversy", by Frank Kelley and Cornelius Ryan
January 1951: "Heartburn", by Hortense Calisher
February 1951: "The Mystery Bus Ride", by Robert Lowry
May 1951: "Blood Wedding in Chicago", by Robert Lowry
June 1951: "Passing Star", by Robert Lowry
August 1952: "Exodus", by James Baldwin [Permissions]
December 1952: "Past and Present", by H. L. Mencken [Permissions]
March 1955: "The Public Be Damned?", by Huntington Hartford
November 1955: "Crazy About London", by William Saroyan [Permissions]
December 1955: "Radio Forever", by William Saroyan [Permissions]
August 1957: "Germs Can Get Sick Too", by Herbert S. Benjamin
May 1960: "Earth Poetry", by Jesse Stuart
October 1960: "Pravda Means Truth", by Robert A. Heinlein [Permissions]

Additional notes

Active contribution renewals are recorded beginning in the 1958 January-June CCE volume, but the earliest renewed contribution is noted in the 1958 July-December volume.

This magazine published as New American Mercury for a short time in the early 1950s.

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