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Several ''New England Monthly'' staff members and contributors went on to achieve notable success after the magazine's demise. These include staff writer Jonathan Harr, author of '' A Civil Action ''; executive editor Joseph Nocera , who Currently writes a weekly business column for the '' New York Times ''; Annie Proulx , the magazine's gardening columnist, who later won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her fiction; architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, who became art critic of the ''New York Times''; and contributor Adrien Nicole LeBlanc, author of the prize-winning ''Random Family.'' Publisher Nylen became a widely admired publishing consultant; editor Okrent was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book ''Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center'', and from 2003 to 2005 was the first public editor of the ''Times''.

Noted writer and editor Richard Todd, who was associated with the magazine from its launch, succeeded Okrent as editor in late 1989 and assumed Nylen's role as publisher in the spring of 1990. The magazine suspended publication in September of that year.