Richard Stolley, 79 Year-Old Founding Editor Of People, Returns To The Magazine

Longtime readers of People magazine may have seen a familiar byline recently: Richard B. Stolley, the magazine's former editor, who ran the place from 1974, when it was founded, until 1982, when he was promoted to an even bigger job.

But Mr. Stolley has not been writing big cover articles or interviewing heads of state. He has contributed a few short features -- a profile of a young man who founded an HIV awareness group, an interview with the former C.I.A. officer Valerie Plame.

"I don't have to interview the head of state to enjoy what I'm doing -- I've done that," Mr. Stolley said in an interview from his home in Santa Fe, N.M. "Reporting, to me, and the writing, in particular, is a joy in itself."

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