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Cullen Murphy
Murphy in 2007
Murphy in 2007
BornJohn Cullen Murphy Jr.
(1952-09-01) September 1, 1952 (age 72)
New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • journalist
  • editor
Alma materAmherst College
ParentsJohn Cullen Murphy
Joan Byrne

John Cullen Murphy, Jr. (born September 1, 1952) is an American writer, journalist and editor who was managing editor of The Atlantic magazine from 1985 to 2006.

He was born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1952, a son of illustrator and cartoonist John Cullen Murphy.[1] He grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. His family moved to Dublin, Ireland for several years, including 1966, the 50th anniversary of the Easter Revolution.[2]

He was educated at Amherst College, from which he graduated with honors in medieval history in 1974. Murphy's first magazine job was in the paste-up department of Change, a magazine devoted to higher education.

He became an editor of The Wilson Quarterly in 1977. From the mid-1970s until 2004 he worked with his father, John Cullen Murphy, as writer for the comic strip Prince Valiant, for which his father produced the artwork.[3] He is also the author of The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own (1999); Are We Rome? (2007), which compares the politics and culture of Ancient Rome with that of the contemporary United States;[4] God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World (2012); and Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe (2017), a history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School.

He currently serves as editor at large for Vanity Fair and lives in Massachusetts. He is on the advisory board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.[5] He has three children: Jack, Anna, and Tim.

Bibliography

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  • Rathje, William & Cullen Murphy (1992). Rubbish! The archaeology of garbage. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Murphy, Cullen (1995). Just curious : essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  • — (1998). The Word according to Eve : women and the Bible in ancient times and our own. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • — (2012). God's jury : the Inquisition and the making of the modern world. London: Allen Lane.
  • — (August 1996). "Eminent domains : a horticulturalist and the landscape at Monticello that he has brought back to life". Brief Lives. The Atlantic Monthly. 278 (2): 28–31.
  • — (September 1996). "The E word". Notes & Comment. The Atlantic Monthly. 278 (3): 16, 18.
  • — (2007). Are we Rome? The fall of an empire and the fate of America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Carter, Graydon & Cullen Murphy (2011). Anderson & Sheppard : a style is born. Trafalgar Square.
  • Murphy, Cullen (2017). Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • —, ed. (2020). The American crisis : what went wrong, how we recover. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • Gendel, Milton (2022). Cullen Murphy (ed.). Just passing through : a seven-decade Roman holiday : the diaries and photographs of Milton Gendel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

References

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  1. ^ "John Cullen Murphy Cartoons An inventory of his cartoons at Syracuse University". Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries. Archived from the original on 2009-12-01. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  2. ^ Murphy, Cullen (March 14, 2022). "Ireland's Great Gamble," The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  3. ^ Cullen Murphy (September 21, 2009). "Triumphant Return; An insider expounds on "Prince Valiant"". Vanity Fair.
  4. ^ Shafritz, Jay M.; Russell, E.W.; Borick, Christopher P. (2013). Introducing Public Administration (8 ed.). New Jersey: Pearson Education. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-205-85589-6.
  5. ^ "About | The Common". Thecommononline.org. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
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