From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant
memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine's
unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross
"Extremely entertaining. . . . life at The New Yorker emerges as a
lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of practical jokes, of feuds and
foibles. It is an affectionate picture of scamps playing their games
around a man who, for all his brusqueness, loved them, took care of
them, pampered and scolded them like an irascible mother hen."
--New York Times
With a foreword by Adam Gopnik and illustrations by James Thurber
At the helm of America's most influential literary magazine from 1925 to
1951, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent,
including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno,
Charles Addams, and Dorothy Parker. But no one could have written about
this irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically
than James Thurber, whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex
literary giant but a historic friendship and a glorious era as well. "If
you get Ross down on paper," warned Wolcott Gibbs to Thurber," nobody
will ever believe it." But readers of this unforgettable memoir will
find that they do.
Offering a peek into the lives of two American literary giants and the
New York literary scene at its heyday, The Years with Ross is a true
classic, and a testament to the enduring influence of their genius.
