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Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892–1951, American editor, b. Aspen, Colo. He founded The New Yorker magazine in 1925 and was its influential managing editor until his death. Ross quit school at the age of 14 to work at the Salt Lake City Tribune. During World War I he edited Stars and Stripes in France. From its inception, The New Yorker captured the contemporary scene in features written by such writers as E. B. White White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks White), 1899–1985, American writer, b. Mt. Vernon, N.Y., grad. Cornell, 1921. A witty, satiric observer of contemporary society, White was a member of the staff of the early New Yorker
..... Click the link for more information. , Dorothy Parker Parker, Dorothy (Dorothy Rothschild Parker), 1893–1967, American short-story and verse writer, b. West End, N.J. While serving as drama critic for Vanity Fair (1916–17) and book critic for The New Yorker
..... Click the link for more information. , James Thurber Thurber, James, 1894–1961, American humorist, b. Columbus, Ohio, studied at Ohio State Univ. After working on various newspapers he served on the staff of The New Yorker
..... Click the link for more information. , and Wolcott Gibbs, and in cartoons by Peter Arno Arno, Peter (är`nō), 1904–68, American cartoonist, b. New York City.
..... Click the link for more information. and Charles Addams Addams, Charles Samuel, 1912–88, American cartoonist, b. Westfield, N.J. Beginning in 1932, Addams's work appeared regularly in The New Yorker magazine, to which he eventually contributed more than 1,300 cartoons.
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Bibliography

See T. Kunkel, ed., Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross (2000); biography by T. Kunkel (1995); J. Thurber, The Years with Ross (repr. 1982).