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''Ainslee's Magazine'' was an American literary periodical published from 1897 to December 1926. It was originally published as a humor magazine called '' The Yellow Kid'', based on the popular comic strip character. It was renamed ''Ainslee's'' the following year. The magazine's publishers were Howard, Ainslee & Co., a division of the Street & Smith publishing house in New York City.


Contributors

Among those who contributed essays, short stories, or poetry to ''Ainslee's'': * Stephen Crane *
Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Hol ...
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Theodore Dreiser Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (; August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalism (literature), naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despi ...
* Frances Gaither * Maud Hart Lovelace * Bret Harte * O. Henry * Anthony Hope *
Jack London John Griffith London (; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t ...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyric poetry, lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted Feminism, feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. ...
* E. Phillips Oppenheim * Constance Lindsay Skinner * Albert Payson Terhune * Stanley J. Weyman * P. G. Wodehouse * I. A. R. Wylie From 1920 to 1923
Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. Parker ros ...
wrote the monthly drama reviews column, "In Broadway Playhouses". Edith Isaacs worked as a critic for the magazine prior to her tenure at ''
Theatre Arts Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communic ...
''. ''Ainslee's'' was published until December 1926, after which it was merged into '' Far West Illustrated''.


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