September 24, 2004

'The American Scholar' Names a New Editor

By PETER MONAGHAN

The American Scholar has named an editor to replace Anne Fadiman, whose controversial departure was announced in March.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society, which publishes the 72-year-old literary and scholarly journal four times a year, announced this month that it had hired Robert S. Wilson, editor of the AARP Bulletin, a publication of AARP, the national association for retired people.

Mr. Wilson had previously edited Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic

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