Wick Allison, birth name Lodowick Brodie Cobb Allison (born March 17, 1948), was a Dallas, Texan magazine publisher and author. He was owner of Dallas’ D Magazine, a monthly magazine covering Dallas-Fort Worth, which he co-founded in 1974. He was also principal owner of People Newspapers, which he purchased in 2003.
Allison was born in Dallas, Texas, and is a sixth-generation Texan. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971. He served as editor of the student humor magazine The Texas Ranger and earned a degree in American Studies. Upon graduation, he served in The White House on the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest.
In 1983, he married the former Christine Peterson and has four daughters.
Wick Allison And D Magazine
Allison co-founded D Magazine — a monthly magazine covering Dallas — in 1974. In 1985, Allison was asked by William F. Buckley, Jr. to join the board of directors of the National Review, and in 1980 he became its publisher, succeeding William A. Rusher.
In February 2013, Allison launched “D: The Broadcast,” a two-hour daily morning talk show, on local Dallas independent station KTXD, but the magazine ended its affiliation with the show in August of the same year.
He also serves as president of the non-profit American Ideas Institute, publisher of The American Conservative.