Cullen Murphy

Cullen Murphy is an editor at large at The Atlantic, where he was the longtime managing editor, and has also been the editor at large at Vanity Fair. He is the author of Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make Believe (FSG, 2017) and the editor of Just Passing Through: A Seven-Decade Roman Holiday: The Diaries and Photographs of Milton Gendel, out now from FSG.

Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

Cullen Murphy Shares the Writer’s Interactions with Josephine Baker, Gore Vidal, Princess Margaret and More

November 21, 2022 By Cullen Murphy

Life with a Legendary (and Eccentric) Cartoonist

On John Cullen Murphy, Master of the Comic Strip, Model to Norman Rockwell

November 29, 2017 By Cullen Murphy

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