Clay Felker

Clay Schuette Felker
Born	October 2, 1925(1925-10-02) Webster Groves, Missouri
Died	July 1, 2008 (aged 82) Manhattan
Spouse(s)	Leslie Blatt (m. 1949) Pamela Tiffin (m. 1962-1969) Gail Sheehy (m. 1984)

Clay Schuette Felker (October 2, 1925 – July 1, 2008) was an American magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968.^[1]

[edit] Birth and education

He was born on October 2, 1925, in Webster Groves, Missouri, the son of Carl Felker, an editor of The Sporting News, and his wife, the former Cora Tyree, the former women's editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He had one sibling, Charlotte. The family surname was originally von Fredrikstein.^[1]

Felker attended Duke University, where he edited the student newspaper, The Chronicle, but left school in 1943 to join the Navy.^[1]^[2]

After returning to Duke and graduating in 1951, Felker went on to work as a sportswriter for Life Magazine.^[1] He later worked for TIME, Esquire, and the New York Herald Tribune. A long-time friend of Tom Wolfe, Felker was one of the early proponents of New Journalism. After founding New York Magazine in 1968, one of his first features was Wolfe's coverage of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, a story Wolfe later expanded into his novel The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Felker resigned from New York following its hostile takeover by Rupert Murdoch in 1976.

Felker later became a lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Felker was married three times:

Leslie Blatt, a fellow Duke undergraduate, in 1949; they later divorced.
Pamela Tiffin, an actress and fashion model, whom he married in 1962 and divorced in 1969.
Gail Sheehy, the writer, in 1984. By this marriage he had two stepdaughters, Mohm Sheehy, whom his third wife adopted from Cambodia, and Maura Sheehy Moss.^[1]

He died on July 1, 2008 in Manhattan of natural causes. During his later years he had a long bout with throat cancer.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Clay Felker, Magazine Pioneer, Dies at 82", New York Times (July 1, 2008). Retrieved on 2008-07-01. "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. He had had throat cancer in his later years."
^ "Clay Felker". Duke University. Retrieved on 2008-07-02.

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