# Smith's Magazine

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***Smith's Magazine*** was a [Street & Smith](/source/Street_%26_Smith) magazine published monthly from April 1905 to February 1922.[1]

Created for the "John Smiths" of the world, [Theodore Dreiser](/source/Theodore_Dreiser) was its initial editor; after a year, he moved to *[Broadway Magazine](/source/Broadway_Magazine)*.[2] By the time Dreiser departed, the magazine had a circulation of 125,000.[3]

Charles A. MacLean became editor of *Smith's* as well as another, more successful Street & Smith magazine, *[The Popular Magazine](/source/The_Popular_Magazine)*, for many years.[4][5][6]

Originally a story magazine directed at the general public, it later focused on a female audience. When the magazine ended its run, Street & Smith merged it and its mainly female readership into the newer, eventually even more successful *[Love Story Magazine](/source/Love_Story_Magazine)*.

*Smith's* was the first magazine to publish author [Ben Ames Williams](/source/Ben_Ames_Williams), in July 1915.[7]

## References

1. [Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes](https://books.google.com/books?id=kygsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA266), p. 266 (1996)

1. Newlin, Keith. [A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia](https://books.google.com/books?id=Qqsc3zwrDtIC&pg=PA340), pp. 340-41 (2003)

1. Appelgate, Edd. [American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary](https://books.google.com/books?id=2CscJ6GBO-wC&pg=PA109), p. 409 (2002)

1. McCourtie, William Bloss. [Where and how to Sell Manuscripts: A Directory for Writers](https://books.google.com/books?id=jqI3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA7), p. 7 (1920)

1. (13 October 1905). [MacLean - Thomas (wedding announcement)](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/10/13/101421024.pdf), *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*

1. (19 January 1928). [Charles T. A. MacLean, Novelist, Dies at 47](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/10/13/101421024.pdf), *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*

1. [Ben Ames Williams](https://books.google.com/books?id=buNTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA110), *The Editor* (July 15, 1917)

## External

- [Archive of selected magazine covers](http://www.philsp.com/mags/smiths.html)

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