American magazine publisher and philanthropist (1889-1984)
Lila Acheson Wallace
Born
Lila Bell Acheson
December 25, 1889
Virden, Manitoba, Canada
Died
May 8, 1984 (aged 94)
Mount Kisco, New York, United States
Education
Ward-Belmont College
Occupation
Magazine publisher
Known for
Co founding Reader's Digest with her husband
Spouse
Dewitt Wallace
Lila Bell Wallace (December 25, 1889 – May 8, 1984) was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist. She co-founded Reader's Digest with her husband Dewitt Wallace, publishing the first issue in 1922.
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Reader's Digest with her husband Dewitt Wallace, publishing the first issue in 1922. Born Lila Bell Acheson in Virden, Manitoba, Canada, her father was...
could be easily read. Wallace showed his sample magazine to Lila Bell Acheson, sister of an old college friend, Barclay Acheson, who responded enthusiastically...
the country. Also in 1972, LilaAchesonWallace donated $5 million to Juilliard, which later named the LilaAchesonWallace American Playwrights Program...
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and television producer. From 1998 through 2000, she attended the LilaAchesonWallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School. Her plays include...
the 21st New York Asian Film Festival, where it was screened at LilaAchesonWallace Auditorium, Asia Society on July 31 for its North American premiere...
January 30, 1931 – October 29, 2017) was an American art historian, LilaAchesonWallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute...
enrolled at the Juilliard School's LilaAchesonWallace American Playwrights Program, receiving both the LilaAchesonWallace Juilliard Playwriting Fellowship...
Master of Fine Arts in dramatic writing. He is also a graduate of the LilaAchesonWallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard School. While studying...
policymakers and leading thinkers. The Wallace Foundation began with the philanthropy of DeWitt and LilaAchesonWallace, who together founded The Reader's...
Juilliard School in New York City as Co-Director of Juilliard's LilaAchesonWallace American Playwrights Program, and is Vice-President of the Dramatists...
in playwriting from The New School. She is also a graduate of the LilaAchesonWallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School in New York...
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positive critical reception. Hall graduated from the Juilliard School's LilaAchesonWallace playwriting program in 2009. In the program she workshopped the script...
She is Chair of the Writing Program. Harris was a Woodrow Wilson LilaAchesonWallace Fellowship recipient twice. In 1998, she was awarded grants from...
City on August 29, 1968. It cost $9.5 million to move the temple. LilaAchesonWallace financially supported the relocation and rehousing of the Egyptian...
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the Juilliard School in recognition of his efforts to revive the LilaAchesonWallace American Playwrights Program with fellow playwright John Guare. In...