Studies in Drabness—With a Flash of Scarlet

Emily Clark Balch was the founding editor of the Reviewer, a literary magazine based in Richmond, Virginia, which debuted in 1921. She published a short story collection, Stuffed Peacocks (Knopf, 1927), and later the memoir Innocence Abroad (Knopf, 1931), an account of her time at the Reviewer. In...