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Simeon Strunsky (July 23, 1879 – February 5, 1948) was a Russian-bornJewish American[1] essayist and editorialist. He is best remembered as a prominent editorialist for theNew York Times for more than two decades.
Simeon Strunsky was born July 23, 1879, inVitebsk,Belorussia, then part of theRussian Empire and today part ofBelarus. His parents were Isidor S. and Perl Wainstein. He graduated fromColumbia University, where he was a member of thePhilolexian Society, in 1900.[2]
Strunsky was a department editor of theNew International Encyclopedia from 1900 to 1906, editorial writer on theNew York Evening Post from 1906 to 1913, and subsequently was literary editor of that paper until 1920.
Strunsky's columns also appeared inAtlantic Monthly,Bookman,Collier's, andHarper's Weekly. He wrote:
Strunsky joined theNew York Times in 1924 and was on staff until his death inPrinceton, New Jersey, after three months of hospitalization. He was married to Socialist activist and historianManya Gordon; they had a son and a daughter. He had a son, Robert Strunsky, by his first wife, Rebecca Slobodkin (d. 1906).
Strunsky's most notable contributions to the Times were his editorial-page essays titled "Topics of the Times." Although it now competes with such departments as "Editorial Observer" and is infrequently seen nowadays, "Topics of the Times" remains a popular feature of the paper.
Simeon Strunsky died on February 5, 1948, aged 68.
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