Winterich, John T., 1891-1970

John Tracy Winterich (1891–1970) was an American writer and journalist. Winterich was born in Middletown, Connecticut on May 25, 1891. He grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from Brown University in 1912. He was Managing Editor of Stars & Stripes, a prolific contributor of articles to many journals and a prominent American bibliophile in the first half of the twentieth century. He was best known as a contributing editor of the Saturday Review, a position he had held since 1946, after a brief stint as managing editor. While working for Saturday Review he was the original author of "The Criminal Record", a weekly column in which crime and detective fiction was reviewed by Winterich under his pseudonym "Sergeant Cuff", taken from the detective in Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. In the 1930s he was editor of The Colophon. He was a contributor to the innovative New York newspaper PM.