The Years With Ross

The famous humorist's celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at 'The New Yorker' with the unforgettable Harold Ross.

At the helm of America's most influential literary magazine for more than half a century, 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 his irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically than James Thurber - an American icon in his own right - whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex literary giant but a historical 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.