Agnes Theresa "Midge" Turk Richardson (March 26, 1930 – c. December 15, 2012) was an American
religious sister
A religious sister (abbreviated ''Sr.'' or Sist.) in the Catholic Church is a woman who has taken public vows in a religious institute dedicated to apostolic works, as distinguished from a nun who lives a cloistered monastic life dedicated to pra ...
and educator turned author and magazine editor. She edited ''
Seventeen'' from 1975 until her retirement in 1993.
[N.Y. Times News Servic]
Midge Richardson , Magazine editor, 82.
''Philadelphia Inquirer
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Life and career
Richardson was born in Los Angeles, California. From age 18 to 36, she took the name Sister Agnes Marie and lived in a Roman Catholic convent
Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM), founded as the Daughters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Catholic religious teaching institute for women. The institute was founded in the Catalan city of ...
. She earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree at the order's Immaculate Heart College. She then taught English, French and drama in local parochial schools, then became the superintendent of
Our Lady Queen of Angels High School in Los Angeles for seven years. Richardson left her religious order in 1966 after suffering from
temporary blindness twice.
[Fox, Margalit (December 22, 2012)]
Midge Turk Richardson, Ex-Nun and Editor, Dies at 82.
''New York Times
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In 1971, she published her memoir ''The Buried Life''. She also wrote a children's biography of her friend, photographer
Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particula ...
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She was married to tennis player
from 1974 until his death in 2006.
[Woo, Elaine (December 29, 2012)]
Midge Turk Richardson dies at 82; ex-nun and Seventeen editor
''Los Angeles Times
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Publications
*Turk, Midge (1971). ''The Buried Life: A Nun's Journey.'' World Publishing Company,
*Turk, Midge (1971). ''Gordon Parks.'' Crowell,
References
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1930 births
2012 deaths
American magazine editors
20th-century American Roman Catholic nuns
20th-century American writers
20th-century American women writers
Women magazine editors
21st-century American Roman Catholic nuns