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The American Scholar

1606 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20009
Phone: (800) 821-4567 Fax: (202) 265- 0083
E-mail: scholar@pbk.org
Web: www.theamericanscholar.org/
Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no Payment: yes (see website) Contests: no ISSN: 0003-0937 Founded: 1932  Issues per year: 4 Distributors: IPA/Big Top Newsstand Services Average pages: 144 Copy Price: $7.95 Subscription (Individuals): $25.00 Subscription (Libraries): $30.00

Publisher’s Description: The American Scholar is the landmark journal of intellectual and cultural affairs published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932.  Focused on the general reader, the magazine publishes intelligent essays on important topics in the world of ideas, literature, science, and the arts. The New York Times described it as a “giant among intellectual journals.”

Since its founding, The American Scholar has served as a showcase for America’s leading essayists, poets, and reviewers, including Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, Albert Einstein, Margaret Mead, Saul Bellow, Jacques Barzun, Robert Frost, John Updike, Robert Pinsky, Cynthia Ozick, and Joseph Epstein.  The American Scholar is among a very few magazines ever to have won National Magazine Awards for general excellence, essays, and feature writing. The American Society of Magazine Editors, a sponsor of the awards, wrote that “The American Scholar celebrates the essay, encouraging some of the country’s finest writers to explore their passions, no matter how eccentric. The result is always intelligent and often surprising.”

The Washington Post added, “Give it a chance and it will become an addiction.”