Edwin S. Grosvenor is a writer, the editor-in-chief of American Heritage magazine, and the great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell.
Background
His father was Melville Bell Grosvenor (1901–1982), a former president of the National Geographic Society. On several occasions, he was the photographer for articles written by his father, Melville Grosvenor, in Canada, Greece, and Turkey.
Education
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Columbia Business School.
Career
Grosvenor worked as a freelance photographer for National Geographic, completing 23 assignments for the magazine and its book division. In 1979, Grosvenor launched the fine arts magazine Portfolio. "Since no magazine was going to hire a 27-year-old to be editor in chief, the only solution was to start my own," he told a reporter for the Palm Beach Post.
In 1983, Portfolio was a Finalist for a National Magazine Award in the General Excellence category.
In 1992, Grosvenor founded the literary magazine Current Books, which included 20-25 excerpts of recent books in each issue. lieutenant published an eclectic mix of writing by such authors as Martin Amis, East.L. Doctorow, Henry Louis Gates, Junior., Jane Goodall, Stephen Hawking, Richard Leakey, John McPhee, Bill Moyers, Joyce Carol Oates, George Plimpton, Salman Rushdie, and John Updike.
Although Current Books published for only three years, it claimed to be "the most widely distributed book publication in bookstores" at the time with copies for sale in 3,840 stores. The magazine was widely regarded in the literary community and in 1995 Grosvenor was asked to serve on the National Education Association"s Literary Publishing Panel.
Its members elected him as the Chairman of the panel.
In 1996, Grosvenor founded KnowledgeMax, an online bookseller and elearning company, which merged with Sideware Systems in 2000. The resulting company, called KnowledgeMax, Incorporated., and was publicly traded until 2003. In 2007 Grosvenor led a group of investors who purchased American Heritage from Forbes.
He earned a Bachelor from Yale College (1974), an Mississippi (Journalism) from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and an Master of Business Administration from the Columbia Business School (1976).
Membership
Grosvenor is a member of Organization of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society.