Rense Paige

American writer and editor who served as editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest magazine from 1975 until 2010. She founded the Arthur Rense Prize poetry award. Rense also transformed the cooking magazine Bon Appétit into its modern format, was editor-in-chief of GEO, and wrote a mystery novel, Manor House (Doubleday, 1997). Rense wrote Architectural Digest: Autobiography of a Magazine 1920–2010 in October 2018, which tells the story of Architectural Digest during her tenure as editor. She increased its circulation to more than 850,000 from 50,000 during her tenure. Paige Rense married four times and had seven stepchildren. She died on 1 January 2021 at age 91. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less