Background
Phillips, John Sanburn was born on July 2, 1861 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. Son of Doctor E. L. and Mary (Sanburn) Phillips.
editor publisher of books and magazines
Phillips, John Sanburn was born on July 2, 1861 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. Son of Doctor E. L. and Mary (Sanburn) Phillips.
Bachelor of Arts, Knox College, 1882, Doctor of Letters, 1910. Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, Harvard, 1885. Student University of Leipzig, 1885-1886.
Began magazine editing and publishing with South. South. McClure, Boston, 1882. Partner in founding McClure’s Magazine, 1893, manager and treasurer of this magazine, 1893-1906. Also manager book department McClure, Phillips & Company, Incorporated.
(first Booth Tarkington and O. Henry books, best of Conan Doyle, Conrad, et cetera), 1900-1906.
President Phillips Public Company, 1906-1910. Editor American Magazine, 1906-1915.
Editor Red Cross Magazine, 1917-1920. Advisory editor American Magazine, 1915-1938.
Clubs: Dutch Treat, Players (New York).
Married Jane B. Peterson, October 2, 1890. Children: Ruth Beale, Dorothy Sanburn (Mistress Dorothy P. Huntington), Margaret Evertson, Elizabeth Peterson (Mistress Bradford C. Colcord), John Peterson.