Harold Ross

Harold Wallace Ross ( November 6, 1892 in Aspen, Colorado, † December 6, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American journalist and founder of the newspaper The New Yorker.

Life

Harold Wallace Ross was the son of Irish emigrants George Ross and his wife Ida Martin. At the age of thirteen, he was a reporter for the newspaper The Salt Lake Tribune. Later, he worked at several other newspapers, including at the Salt Lake Telegram, The Denver Post, The Atlanta Journal, The Brooklyn Eagle, and The San Francisco Call. At the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered for the army, and came with the U.S. Army Eighteenth Engineers Railway Regiment to France. In Paris, Ross worked for the Stars and Stripes, an eight-page newspaper troops. Within a short time he became acquainted with the journalists Alexander Woollcott, Cyrus Baldridge, Franklin Pierce Adams and Jane Grant.

Back in New York City, he was a frequent guest in the literary circle in the Algonquin Hotel, called the Algonquin Round Table, a loose group of journalists, writers and actors. With the financial support of Raoul Fleischmann 1925 Ross founded his own newspaper (The New Yorker). First, the magazine focused on the social and cultural life in New York City. Later, short stories, cartoons, biographical profiles, and art criticism were added. Among the best known journalists included, among others, Janet Flanner, Jane Grant, Ruth Hale, Dorothy Parker, Robert E. Sherwood, Heywood Broun, Robert Benchley, Alice Duer Miller and many others. Influence on the newspaper had Ross until his death from cancer on December 6, 1951. His successor William Shawn was.

Marriages

Harold Wallace Ross was married three times: