Edward Newhouse, who had been a staff writer for The New Yorker and was married to Dorothy DeLay, died on November 11 of cardiac disease. He was 91.

Born in Budapest, Newhouse emigrated to the U.S. in 1922 at the age of 12. He attended Townsend Harris High School in New York City. He joined the writing staff of The New Yorker shortly after its beginning, working with Harold Ross, the magazine's founding editor. More than 50 of Newhouse's short stories were published in it over a 25-year period, and he was recognized as one of the best contributors of fiction of the early years of the magazine. Many of the other writers of that time—including John Cheever, William Maxwell, Carson McCullers and James Cozzens—were his colleagues and friends.

Newhouse continued to write for The New Yorker through World War II, during which he was a major on the staff of General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, the commander-in-chief of the Army Air Force in the Pentagon (and wrote his reports and speeches). He attended the Big Three Conference (F.D.R., Churchill, and Stalin) in Teheran in 1943. Having met Stalin there, Newhouse—himself born in a country behind the Iron Curtain—was summoned to Washington after the war to answer charges of Communist sympathizing; the charges were subsequently dropped.

In 1941, he was married to Dorothy DeLay, who taught violin at Juilliard and was widely recognized as the world's preeminent violin teacher for decades until her death last March. Among DeLay's students were many of the current violin soloists, including Itzhak Perlman, Midori, Cho-Liang Lin, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Robert McDuffie, and Sarah Chang. Newhouse managed a large part of her career and was essential in the development of many of her students, who regarded him as a friend and advisor for years following their formal training.

DeLay and Newhouse had met on a cross-country train en route to New York in late 1940—she was returning from playing with Stokowski's All-American Youth Orchestra, he from visiting his younger brother in Houston. He actually proposed on the train, and they were married four months later, while she was still a student at Juilliard.

Newhouse is survived by his son, Jeffrey Newhouse of Bronxville, N.Y., and his daughter, Alison Dinsmore of Boston, as well as four grandchildren.