Harold Ross created and for twenty-seven years edited one of the most important magazines of the twentieth century, the New Yorker. Ross was not a New Yorker by birth or upbringing, and his quirks and lack of sophistication often made him seem an odd...

Harold Ross (1892-1951) founded the New Yorker and remained at its helm for a quarter century. His idiosyncratic direction molded the magazine, with its blend of urbane wit and moral purpose. Harold Wallace Ross was born November 6, 1892, in Aspen,...

Since its inception in 1925, The New Yorker magazine has been one of the most important venues for modern fiction. Yet Ernest Hemingway published only one short piece there, "My Own Life" in 1927. Scholars often attribute Hemingway's absence from The New Yorker...

BY THOMAS KUNKEL RANDOM HOUSE 498 PP. $25. This is the best and the worst book about Harold Ross, the country bumpkin who founded The New Yorker just seventy years ago. It's the best in an academic sense: Thomas Kunkel, himself an...

Part pooh-bah, part pontiff, for some 50 years Leo Lerman ruled Manhattan’s cultural roost from a host of journalistic redoubts, including Mademoiselle, Vogue and Vanity Fair, ending his career as an über-editorial advisor at Condé Nast Publications. He died at 80 on Aug. 22, 1994....

General Forrest Harding's house in Franklin, Ohio, is preserved as it was before his death in 1970, and it is a museum of disappointment. Musty evening wear fills the closet, a shrunken military tunic hangs from a stand. Hidden away in the drawers can be...