William Chon was born in Chicago on this day (August 31) in 1907. Concerned that his name sounded "too Chinese," he later changed it to William Shawn. As Shawn, he spent more than 50 years at The New Yorker, 35 of them as the magazine's editor. The young Chon also figures in a widely told but apparently apocryphal story involving the famous child murderers Leopold and Loeb.
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