Steven C. Swett

Steven Carton Swett (born 1934) is an American journalist and publisher who worked for various print publications and received a Gerald Loeb Award.

Early life Swett was born in 1934 to Catharine (Carton) and Paul P. Swett Jr. in Hartford, Connecticut. Through his mother, Swett is a descendant of Connecticut Colonial Governor Thomas Welles (1594–1660).

Swett attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts. He graduated in 1952.

At Harvard University, Swett was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club and the Delphic Club.

Career After university, Swett worked briefly for The Baltimore Sun before entering the Army.

In 1961, Swett was part of a team at The Wall Street Journal that received the Gerald Loeb Award for Newspapers.

In the mid-1960s, Swett managed the Education Department at Time, Inc. and served as the education editor.

Swett joined Scholastic Magazines Inc. in 1968 as the promotion director of the Junior-Senior High School Division. In 1976, he was appointed publisher of the newly created educational periodicals division.

Swett began writing for the Valley News in 1988 as a business and financial reporter. He left the West Lebanon, New Hampshire, paper in 1993 to join an investment management firm.

Personal life Swett married Shiela Lawrence Chanler on October 5, 1957, at St. Matthew's Church in Bedford, New York. They had four children – Benjamin, Sarah, Paul, and Evelyn. He wrote about his experience in his book Twenty-three Days in the North Atlantic.

Shiela died at their home in Hanover, New Hampshire, on May 20, 2022, after battling multiple myeloma for fifteen years. Twenty-three Days in the North Atlantic, Transatlantic Press (1988) The Metalworkers: Robert Poole, His Ironworks, and Technology in 19th Century America, Baltimore Museum of Industry (2022)