John Neville Wheeler | |
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![]() Photo of Wheeler from Elmo Scott Watson's A History of Newspaper Syndicates in the United States, 1865-1935, published in 1936. | |
Born | |
Died | October 13, 1973 | (aged 87)
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Occupation(s) | Newspaperman, Publishing executive, Magazine editor, Author |
Employer(s) | New York Herald Liberty |
Known for | Wheeler Syndicate Bell Syndicate North American Newspaper Alliance |
Notable work | I've Got News for You (1961) |
John Neville Wheeler (April 11, 1886 – October 13, 1973) was an American newspaperman, publishing executive, magazine editor, and writer. He was born in Yonkers, New York, graduated Columbia University (which holds a collection of his papers), was a veteran of World War I serving in France as a field artillery lieutenant, began his newspaper career at the New York Herald, and became managing editor of Liberty. He was married to Elizabeth T. Wheeler and had one daughter, the film editor Elizabeth Wheeler, who died in 1956. He is known primarily as the founder of several newspaper syndicates, of which the largest was the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), and through which he employed some of the most noted writing talents of his day.