Top Selling Books and magazine back issues only from the 1930s through the 1990s

Jane Chesnutt (1991–2010)

Jane Chesnutt was Editor-In-Chief/Vice President of Woman's Day, the largest selling single copy magazine in the United States. Each issue is read by an estimated 22,000,000 people.

Ms. Chesnutt was named Editor-in-Chief in 1991. She first joined Woman's Day in 1978 as an assistant editor, then took on the responsibility for beauty coverage, and in 1989 was named Beauty, Fashion and Health Director. In 1992, she was named one of Adweek's "Editors of the Year."

Articles she has edited have been honored by such organizations as the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Family Practice and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She is a winner of the Clarion Award from Women in Communications, Inc., for a 1984 survey that was one of the very first research efforts to seriously study the gender gap.

Ms. Chesnutt was selected to participate in the 1993-94 Leadership New York Program sponsored by the CORO Foundation. She is on the Business Advisory Council of Washington Irving High School in New York City, and heads the mentoring Committee of Women in communications, Inc. , of which she is a member. She is also a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors, The Fashion Group International and the YWCA Academy of Achievers.

A native Texan, Ms. Chesnutt holds a degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. She began her career at the Environment Information Center and as an editorial assistant at the American Journal of Nursing before coming to Woman's Day.

Ms. Chesnutt lives in Manhattan and Chester, Connecticut, with her husband, W. Mallory Rintoul, a lawyer.

Ellen Levine (1982–1991)

Before her appointment to the top post at the flagship publication of Hearst Magazines, Levine served as editor-in-chief of two other major women’s magazines, Redbook (1990 to 1994) and Woman’s Day (1982 to 1990), and as a senior editor of Cosmopolitan (1976 to 1982).