Edith Lewis | |
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![]() Lewis's passport photograph, 1920 | |
Born | |
Died | August 11, 1972 New York City, U.S. | (aged 89)
Occupation(s) | Magazine editor, McClure's Magazine |
Partner | Willa Cather (c. 1908โ1947) |
Edith Lewis (December 22, 1882 โ August 11, 1972)[1][2] was a magazine editor at McClure's Magazine, the managing editor of Every Week Magazine, and an advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson. Lewis was Willa Cather's domestic partner and was named executor of Cather's literary estate in Cather's will. After Cather's death, Lewis published a memoir of Cather in 1953 titled Willa Cather Living.[3]