Collection: New Yorker

The New Yorker is an iconic American magazine featuring fiction, essays, criticism, poetry, satire and cartoons. It was started in 1925 by journalist Harold Ross and his wife Jane. He remained editor for 26 years until his death in 1951.

Among many famous authors whose work appeared in the magazine are James Thurber, Alexander Woollcott (who once said Ross resembled “a dishonest Abe Lincoln”), Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Vladimir Nabokov and J.D. Salinger. Among artists and cartoonists whose work enlivened the magazine are Charles Addams, George Price, George Booth, Saul Steinberg and Gahan Wilson. In more recent years Robert Crumb has also contributed. Issues from the 1920s are becoming very scarce and are highly collectible.