Harold Ross

Harold Ross was born in Aspen, Colorado, on 6th November, 1892. At the age of thirteen he became a reporter on the Salt Lake City Tribune. He also worked for the Marysville Appeal in California before joining the United States Army during the First World War. In February, 1918 the army established the Stars and Stripes, an eight-page newspaper based in Paris and Ross became its editor.

With the financial support of Raoul Fleischmann, Ross launched his own magazine, The New Yorker, in 1925. Initially the magazine concentrated on the social and cultural life of New York City. It eventually widened its scope and developed a reputation for publishing some of the best short-stories, cartoons, biographical profiles, foreign reports and arts reviews. Ross remained the controlling influence over the magazine until his death on 6th December, 1951.