Each year, readers have questions about how TIME's Person of the Year was chosen. Here’s what you need to know about the process TIMEPOY
Though the issue has become a signature feature for TIME, it. Over the week of New Year’s Day in 1928, the editors of the magazine struggled to find someone to write about during a slow news period—so they decided to feature one person who had been influential the year before. “This was an easy choice,” wrote then-publisher P.I. Prentice in a 1945, issue looking back on the decision. “, who had soloed the Atlantic in only 33 hours and 39 minutes, was the hero of 1927.
” As a bonus, he hadn’t appeared on the cover before, and this rectified that oversight. The cover line dubbed him “The Man of the Year” and a tradition was born. Though Wallis Simpson became the first “Woman of the Year” in 1937, the title did not become gender neutral until 1999.
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