 Purchased in 1989 from its original investors by Telemedia, a Canadian publishing company, it ceased publication in September 1990 during the recession which hit the New England region.Several "New England Monthly" staff members and contributors went on to achieve notable success after the magazine's demise.These include staff writer Jonathan Harr, author of "A Civil Action"; executive editor Joseph Nocera, who writes a weekly business column for "The New York Times"; Annie Proulx, the magazine's gardening columnist, who later won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her fiction; architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, who became art critic for "The New York Times"; and contributor Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of the prize-winning "Random Family".