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Harold Wallace Ross (November 6, 1892 – December 6, 1951) was an American journalist who founded ''The New Yorker'' magazine and served as editor-in-chief of the publication from its inception until his death. ==Early life== Born in Aspen, Colorado, Ross was the son of Scots-Irish immigrant George Ross and schoolteacher Ida (Martin) Ross. When he was eight, the family left Aspen because of the collapse in the price of silver, moving to Redcliff and Silverton, Colorado, then to Salt Lake City, Utah. In Utah, he worked on the high school paper (The West High Red & Black) and was a stringer for ''The Salt Lake Tribune'', the city's leading daily newspaper. The young Ross had journalism in the blood. He dropped out of school at thirteen and ran away to his uncle in Denver, where he worked for ''The Denver Post''. Though he returned to his family, he did not return to school, instead getting a job at the ''Salt Lake Telegram'', a smaller afternoon daily newspaper. By the time he was twenty-five he had worked for at least seven different papers, including the Marysville, California ''Appeal''; the Sacramento ''Union''; the Panama ''Star and Herald''; the New Orleans ''Item''; the ''Atlanta Journal,'' the ''Hudson Observer'' in Hoboken, New Jersey; the ''Brooklyn Eagle''; and the ''San Francisco Call. '' In Atlanta, he covered the murder trial of Leo Frank, one of the "trials of the century." In World War I, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Eighteenth Engineers Railway Regiment. In France, he edited the regimental journal and went to Paris to work for the ''Stars and Stripes,'' serving from February 1918 to April 1919. He was said to have walked 150 miles to reach Paris to write for ''Stars and Stripes'',〔Richard C. Tobias. "Ross, Harold"; American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Access Date: Wed Mar 12 2014 16:35:14 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)〕 where he met Alexander Woollcott, Cyrus Baldridge, Franklin Pierce Adams, and Jane Grant, who would become his first wife and helped back ''The New Yorker''. After the war, he returned to New York City and assumed the editorship of a magazine for veterans, ''The Home Sector''. It folded in 1920 and was absorbed by the ''American Legion Weekly. '' He then spent a few months at ''Judge'', a humor magazine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold Ross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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