About the Author

Stephanie L. Hawkins is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Texas.

Reviews

Hawkins's book is revisionist revisionism. Against the earlier, harsher critics of the magazine, she argues that readers were neither monolithic nor easily duped, and that the letters to the editors, and indeed, the broader gauge of cartoon and jokes and remarks published about it elsewhere, show that, whatever National Geographic might have been selling, the audience was not necessarily buying it.-- "New Yorker"