Arnold Gingrich

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Arnold Gingrich (b. 1903, Grand Rapids, Michigan - d. 1976) founded Esquire (magazine) with David Smart (a Chicago publisher) in 1933. He remained the editor of the magazine until 1961.

Gingrich published such authors as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, John Dos Passos, Garry Wills, Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer. He was also one of the few magazine editors to publish F. Scott Fitzgerald regularly in the late 1930s, including his Pat Hobby stories. Gingrich also published stories by Jack Woodford whom he befriended when they worked together at an advertising agency in the 1920s. He wrote the introduction to Woodford's famous book on writing and publishing Trial and Error.

The magazine’s name Esquire was selected after Gingrich received a letter that was addressed to "Arnold Gingrich, Esq." The magazine he created set the template for mens magazines on which Playboy was merely a variation -- Esquire with nude photographs.

He was an avid fan of fly-fishing and claimed to have read Isaac Walton's The Compleat Angler every year. In 1974, he wrote a book about the sport called The Fishing in Print.