User:Eye Tooth/A. Whitney Ellsworth

A. Whitney Ellsworth was a founder and publisher of the New York Review of Books and managing partner of the Lakeville Journal Company based in Lakeville, Connecticut, which publishes three weekly newspapers. In 1972 he joined the board of Amnesty International USA, became chair in 1976, served on the AI International Executive Committee from 1982–87, and was a member of AIUSA Group 26 in New York City. He represented Amnesty International on missions to Romania, the Philippines, Morocco, Egypt, Thailand, and Turkey. He was a board member of Human Rights First and the Andrei Sakharov Foundation USA.

He was married to Sallie Bingham, with whom he had one son, Barry Ellsworth.