James J. Storrow Jr.

James Jackson Storrow IV (May 7, 1917 – January 13, 1984) was an American film producer and magazine publisher who published The Nation from 1965 to 1977

Early life Storrow was born on May 7, 1917, in Boston. His parents were James J. Storrow, son of James J. Storrow and Helen Storrow, and Margaret Randolph Rotch, daughter of Abbott Lawrence Rotch and Margaret Randolph Rotch. He left the company in 1943 to join the United States Navy. After the war, Storrow formed two businesses, the General Microfilm Company and the Henry Thayer Company. In 1967, The Nation absorbed another progressive publication, Frontier. On November 28, 1976, it was announced that Thomas B. Morgan, former editor of The Village Voice, would purchase The Nation. On December 21, 1976, Storrow and Morgan jointly announced that the deal had fallen through and the sale would not take place. One year later, Storrow sold the magazine to a group of investors led by Hamilton Fish V.

Personal life and death Storrow married Patricia Blake in 1940. Patricia Storrow died in 1962 and later that year, Storrow married Linda Eder Jamieson.