Katherine Bouton has been the deputy editor of The New York Times
Magazine since 1998. Her previous jobs at the New York Times include
deputy editor of the Book Review, deputy science editor of the New
York Times, and four years as a senior editor at the Magazine, from
1988 to 1992. She began her career at The New Yorker Magazine, where
she worked as a fact checker, among other editorial jobs, eventually
contributing both fiction and nonfiction to the magazine. She has
also written for the Times Magazine and Book Review, among other
places. She is a graduate of Vassar College.