Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker
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Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker

Thomas Kunkel
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This hugely entertaining biography of the founding editor of The New Yorker tells the diverting story of how Ross and the brilliant group of people he gathered around him--including James Thurber, Charles Addams, Dorothy Parker, and John O'Hara--devised the formula that made the magazine such a popular and critical success. Photos & cartoons.
Genres: BiographyNonfictionJournalismBiography Memoir
497 Pages

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