Calvin Fixx, born Calvin Henry Fix, was an American journalist and editor, lifelong friend of Robert Cantwell and friend of Whittaker Chambers, both fellow editors at Time magazine. All three were eit
View of Aberdeen, Washington, where Fixx began lifelong friendship with Robert Cantwell
Crowd gathering at Wall Street and Broad Street after 1929 crash – the Great Depression shaped Fixx's experience in New York City
Residential street in Jackson Heights, Queens, where Fixx lived much of his life
Whittaker Chambers joined Robert Cantwell as close friend of Fixx's during their years at Time
Louis Kronenberger was an American literary critic, novelist, and biographer who wrote extensively on drama and the 18th century.
Calvin Fixx
…an editor named Tom Matthews had gathered a brilliant group of writers, including James Agee, Robert Fitzgerald, Whittaker Chambers, Robert Cantwell, Louis Kronenberger, and Calvin Fixx ... They were dazzling. Time's style was still very hokey—"backward ran sentences till reeled the mind"—but I could tell, even as a…
Louis Kronenberger (1955) Photo by Carl Van Vechten
John Wilkes by Richard Houston (1769), about whom Kronenberger wrote in 1974
Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony (1882), about whom Kronenberger wrote in 1976