Letters from the Editor
Ross, Harold Wallace / Kunkel, Thomas
These exhilarating letters-selected and introduced by Thomas Kunkel, who wrote Genius in Disguise, the distinguished Ross biography-tell the dramatic story of the birth of The New Yorker and its precarious early days and years. Ross worries about everything from keeping track of office typewriters to the magazine's role in wartime to the exact questions to be asked for a "Talk of the Town" piece on the song "Happy Birthday." We find Ross, in K...