James Thurber’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.

No one cold have written about this 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 historic friendship and a glorious era as well.

2001 paperback edition.