Overview
From iconic American humorist JamesThurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker withthe magazine's unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross"Extremely entertaining. . . . lifeat The New Yorker emerges as a lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of practicaljokes, of feuds and foibles. It is an affectionate picture of scamps playing theirgames 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 TimesWith a foreword by Adam Gopnik andillustrations by James ThurberAtthe helm of America's most influential literary magazine from 1925 to 1951, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including RobertBenchley, Alexander Woollcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, andDorothy Parker. But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric geniusmore affectionately or more critically than James Thurber, whose portrait ofRoss captures not only a complex literary giant but a historic friendship and aglorious era as well. "If you get Ross down on paper," warned WolcottGibbs to Thurber," nobody will ever believe it." But readers of thisunforgettable memoir will find that they do. Offeringa peek into the lives of two American literary giants and the New York literaryscene at its heyday, The Years with Ross is a true classic, and atestament to the enduring influence of their genius.
