Dec 30, 2009

The Years with Ross | The Years with Ross

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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The Years with Ross | The Years with Ross

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