Janet Groth went to work at The New Yorker in 1957, when she was 19, and stayed until 1978. As it happens—Groth makes it clear in her memoir, The Receptionist: An Education At The New Yorker, that practically nothing she did in those two decades was planned—this placed her at the magazine throughout the heart of William Shawn’s long, legendary tenure as editor; she arrived five years after he did, and departed nine years before his forced ouster set off shock waves in the publishing world and divided the staff into hardcore loyalists and those prepared to serve the new regime.
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