Further Reading
- "Ho Hum: Newsbreaks from the 'New Yorker,'" Farrar & Rinehart, 1931, 116 p. (Collection of humorous news items originally excerpted and published in the New Yorker, includes an introduction by E. B. White and illustrations by longtime New Yorker artist Otto Soglow.)
- Bernstein, Burton, Thurber, Dodd, Mead, 1975, 532 p. (Biography of James Thurber that contains chapters documenting the New Yorker's early years and his involvement with the magazine.)
- Davies, Russell, "Just a Smile at Twilight," The Times Literary Supplement (24 September 1976): 1203. (Review of two collections of New Yorker cartoons that discusses characteristics typical of drawings published in the magazine.)
- Harriman, Margaret Case, "Take Them up Tenderly: A Collection of Profiles," New Yorker, Alfred A. Knopf, 1945, 266 p. (Collection of biographical sketches first published in the New Yorker.)
- Ingersoll, Ralph McAllister, Points of Departure: An Adventure in Autobiography, Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1961, 247 p. (Autobiography by the first managing editor of the New Yorker contains sections on Harold W. Ross and the founding of the magazine.)
- Johnson, Robert Owen, An Index to Literature in the 'New Yorker,' 3 vols. Metuchen, N. J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1969-1976, 1741 p. (Indexes fiction, poetry, reviews, and nonfiction published in the New Yorker through Volume L (17 February 1975).)
- Kramer, Dale, Ross and the 'New Yorker,' Doubleday, 1951, 306 p. (Noncritical biography of Harold W. Ross that documents the founding and early years of the New Yorker.)
- Kunkel, Thomas, Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the 'New Yorker,' Random House, 1995, 497 p. (Biography of New Yorker founder Harold Ross that argues against the common perception of him as a crude personality and an unschooled editor, instead portraying him as having a "keen native intellect, a searching curiosity, and a droll humor—qualities Ross imprinted onto his magazine.")
- McGrath, Charles, "The Ross Years," The New Yorker (20-27 February 1995): 180-95. (Profile of Harold Ross. Included with the essay are letters by Ross selected and edited by Thomas Kunkel, author of Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the 'New Yorker.')
- Pinck, Dan, "Paging Mr. Ross: Old Days at the 'New Yorker,'" Encounter LXIX, No. 1 (June 1987): 5-11. (Personal memoir of Ross by a former New Yorker office-boy.)
- Seelye, John, "Black on White," The New Republic 147, No. 26 (29 December 1962): 21-3. (Meditation on the effect of the appearance of James Baldwin's "Letter from a Region in My Mind," a work about the racial oppression experienced by African-Americans, amid numerous advertisements for luxuries in the pages of the New Yorker.)
- Thurber, James, The Years with Ross, Little, Brown, 1957, 310 p. (Memoir of Harold Ross and the New Yorker by a close friend to Ross and major figure in the magazine's development.)
- Weber, Ronald, "Letting Subjects Grow: Literary Nonfiction from the New Yorker," The Antioch Review 36, No. 4 (Fall 1978): 486-99. (Describes the characteristics of New Yorker "art journalism" through close examination of Jane Kramer's The Last Cowboy and John McPhee's Coming into the Country.)
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