The Years with Ross (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: James Thurber
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1925-1951
- Setting: New York and Europe
- Principal Characters: Harold Ross, James Thurber
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, New York City, Wit or humor, Work or workers, Men, Biography, Humorists
Form and Content
During the decade before Harold Ross’s death in 1951, several magazines asked James Thurber to contribute essays about Ross and about Thurber’s adventures with him in the weekly production of The New Yorker. Thurber declined these requests, but in 1957, Charles Morton, of The Atlantic Monthly, queried Thurber repeatedly about the possibility of a series of articles on Ross. One of these queries reached Thurber in the Bahamas just as he was giving up the writing of a play on which he had been working for several months. He said yes to...
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