For their contents most U.S. magazines are dependent on the ruggedly individualistic breed of writers called freelancers.
The free-lancers write more than half the articles that appear in the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Cottier's, McCall's, This Week and scores of others.
And their importance has vastly increased in recent years as U.S. magazines, which were once mostly fiction, have shifted to about 75% nonfiction. Thus, except for the handful of magazines that are largely staff-written, free-lancers have become indispensable. "The free-lancer," says Collier's Editor Roger Dakin. "is the backbone of the magazine...
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