George Horace Lorimer, long-time editor of the Saturday Evening Post, was born in 1868.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
—George Horace Lorimer

George Horace Lorimer started his adult working life as a meat packer with the Armour Packing Company but turned to journalism by the mid 1890s. Lorimer's first job in journalism was as a newspaper reporter in Boston. Lorimer enjoyed great success as a reporter and soon worked his way up to editor-in-chief of the Saturday Evening Post. Lorimer served as editor-in-chief of the famous magazine from 1899 until 1936. During his leadership of the magazine, Lorimer was able to secure article contributions from seven U.S. Presidents, a senator and the famed Communist politician and theoretician Leon Trotsky. He also gave Norman Rockwell his start at the Post by commissioning his first five cover paintings when Rockwell was just 22. Rockwell would go on to complete over 322 covers for the journal. For over 36 years, Lorimer reigned well over the publication, using his instincts and knowledge of the middle class' tastes in literature and humor and guiding the publication to approximately three million regular subscribers during his tenure.

EconEdLink
One of the most famous and prolific contributors to the Saturday Evening Post, Norman Rockwell painted 322 covers for the publication. Norman Rockwell's Curiosity Shop (K–2) introduces young students to the paintings of this artist in the context of a lesson that examines the use of money for trading goods and services.

ReadWriteThink
Understanding the conventions of writing is a key element in becoming a successful writer or editor. Inside or Outside? A Mini-Lesson on Quotation Marks and More (6–8) is a mini-lesson that helps students to look closely at their writing, marking quotation marks and considering how the conventions of punctuation apply. By teaching students how to identify the conventions used in their own writing, self-editing activities such as this quotation marks lesson help students become more responsible writers.

Students are the authors, editors and illustrators of biographies of their reading buddies in Book Buddy Biographies: Intermediate and Primary Students Working Together (K–2).

ARTSEDGE
Fiction writing from some of the most famous writers of the 20th century appeared in the Post, including Jack London's Call of the Wild and works from Willa Cather, Stephen Crane and Rudyard Kipling. The ARTSEDGE Mini-site Island Online (K–12), includes an online storytelling and writing workshop, Storytelling Online: Mythology Across Time and Borders (K–12) that provides teacher and student resources to help students develop skills not only in writing, but in revising and responding to others' work.