Jane Grant

She was also famous as Dorothy Parker by then.

In 1925, when Round Tablers Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant launched a magazine they'd been talking about, Parker was a name they wanted on the masthead.

[gentle music] During its first two decades, The New Yorker became the successful humor and literary magazine that its founding editor, Harold Ross, had dreamed of.

From its dingy offices on 43rd Street, he published essays that were fizzy and wry, cartoons that were risque and winking.