Recruiting Writers

In the summer of 1925, Harold Ross hired two colleagues who would help him bring his editorial vision to fruition. Ralph Ingersoll served as managing editor of the magazine until 1930, when he left to work for Time, Inc. Katharine Angell, who would become Katharine White upon her marriage to the writer E.B. White, took the helm of the fiction department. Ross, Ingersoll, and Angell recognized that The New Yorker would live or die on the quality of its writing. They compiled lists of potential contributors, like the ones seen here, and divided the work of outreach.