Fanny Butcher

Fanny Butcher (née Fanny Amanda Butcher; September 13, 1888 – May 11, 1987)[1] was a long time writer and literary critic for the Chicago Tribune newspaper.

In 1935 Butcher married Richard Drummond Bokum, Jr. (1885–1963), an advertising executive.

In 1923 she became the literary editor and held the position for 40 years until her retirement in 1963.

A cartoon by Helen E. Hokinson of The New Yorker on the back cover of Fanny Butcher's autobiography, Many Lives – One Love, depicts a bookstore clerk in the biography section showing a book to an elderly lady, saying: Hugh Walpole liked it, Fanny Butcher liked it, Wm.

Rose Benét liked it, and Mrs. Roosevelt liked it, but it isn't very good.From this, one might infer that Fanny Butcher was a household name among bookish Americans in 1940.