About the author and the Story Saturday Review Mona Gardner,an American woman writer.Most of her short stories were written for the Saturday Evening Post magazine and Collier's Weekly magazine during the 1930s and 1940s.The Dinner Party first appeared in the Saturday Review of Literature, Vol.25,No.5,January 31,1941. UNIVERSITY FOR UTOPIANS By Robert M.HatchinsAbout the Author and the Story Mona Gardner, an American woman writer. Most of her short stories were written for the Saturday Evening Post magazine and Collier’s Weekly magazine during the 1930s and 1940s. The Dinner Party first appeared in the Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. 25, No. 5, January 31, 1941