 She was the fourth editor of the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly "The American Scholar" since 1997, and under her direction, it won three National Magazine Awards in six years.She left "The American Scholar", where she was paid an annual salary of $60,000, in 2004, in the midst of a dispute over budgetary issues.At the time of her departure the journal faced a budget deficit of about $250,000 and a circulation of about 28,000.