The New Yorker: Important Events by Year (abbreviated; information from Complete New Yorker Timeline and other sources)1925 February: Harold Ross launches the magazine (financial Backing from Raoul fleishman); first cover with Eustace
Tilley by Rea Irvin; Katharine Angell (later White) first fiction editor; Janet Flanner (Genet): Letter from Paris1926 E.B. White hired; Peter Arno’s first cover (of 99)
1928 John O’Hara’s first contribution (will contribute 239 stories)
1929 F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes “A Short Autobiography” in magazine; William Butler Yeats publishes “Death” (his
only poem in the magazine)1930 22 February: first James Thurber drawing in the magazine (Thurber’s drawings rescued from trash by White)
1933 William Shawn becomes “Talk” reporter; first Charles Addams cartoon (he will do 68 covers for the magazine)
1934 Magazine publishes first of many pieces by Edmund Wilson; Andy Logan: first female Talk reporter
1935 John Cheever’s first New Yorker story, “Brooklyn Rooming House” is published; New Yorker offices move from
25 West Forty-fifth Street to 25 West Forty-third (to remain here for next 56 years)1936 Brendan Gill and A.J. Liebling begin work at the magazine; William Maxwell publishes first New Yorker story,
“Mrs. Farnham Puts Her Foot Down” (will later become fiction editor)1938 Joseph Mitchell goes to work for the magazine; William Carlos Williams’s first poem published
1939 W.H. Auden’s “Song” is published; Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” published; William Shawn
becomes managing editor1941 First drawings of Saul Steinberg appear
1942 “Literary Dinner,” a poem by Vladimir Nabokov appears, his first contribution to the magazine
1943 Ross offers a “pony” edition of magazine for servicemen (continues through 1946)
1944 Mary McCarthy contributes first story, “The Company Is Not Responsible”; Roger Angell’s first piece, a story,
“Three Ladies in the Morning” appears1945 Eleanor Gould becomes magazine’s first grammarian (remains in this capacity until 1999); Andy Logan becomes
magazine’s first female Talk reporter1946 Hiroshima" by John Hersey occupies entire issue of 31 August; J.D. Salinger's first piece (containing character
named Holden Caulfield) is published1948 Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” published in 31 January issue
1950 Lillian Ross publishes famous Profile of Ernest Hemingway
1951 Ross dies at 59
1952 Shawn becomes editor in January
1954 John Updike’s first story and first poem appear in the magazine
1956 Roger Angell becomes fiction editor
1958 Sylvia Plath’s “Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor” is published
1961 Muriel Spark’s “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” is published
1962 Angell becomes baseball correspondent; James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind” is published in 17
November issue; Rachel Carson publishes “Silent Spring” appears in three issues1963 Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” appears in five consecutive issues. Calvin Trillin’s first pieces appear
1965 Four issues carry Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” are published; John McPhee’s first Profile appears (has
subsequently published 26 books, most of which appeared in early form first in the magazine)1967 Publication of Jonathan Schell’s piece “The Village of Ben Suc” (on demolition of village in South Viet Nam)
1968 Pauline Kael becomes film reviewer
1969 Raoul Fleishman dies; son Peter Fleishman becomes Publisher; George Booth’s first New Yorker cartoon appears
1970 “The Greening of America” by Charles Reich appears; Garrison Keillor publishers “Local Family Keeps Son
Happy,” his first New Yorker piece, appears in 19 September issue (he will publish more than 50 stories)1978 George W.S. Trow, Jr. publishes two-part Profile, “Eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse (subject:
Ahmet Ertegun)1981 Susan Sheehan publishes four-part piece on a woman’s lifelong battle with schizophrenia; “The Underclass” by Ken
Auletta is published in three parts; fiction contributors during the year include Ann Beattie, Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Donald Barthelme, John Updike, Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Peter Taylor, Mary Robison,
Mavis Gallant, V.S. Pritchett, William Trevor, Cynthia Ozick, Stanislaw Lem1985 The Fleishmanns sell The New Yorker to Advance Publications, Inc.
1987 Robert Gottlieb becomes editor, succeeding William Shawn
1989 Ian Frazier’s “Great Plains,” later to become a book appears
1991 The New Yorker moves from 25 West Forty-third Street to 20 West Forty-third Street
1992 Tina Brown becomes editor, succeeding Robert Gottlieb. Beginning with 5 October issue, magazine is
substantially redesigned. Richard Avedon beomes first staff photographer. Shawn dies 8 December;
Joseph Mitchell’s “Up in the Old Hotel” (compilation of his New Yorker stories) becomes best seller; New
Yorker’s first double issue published1993 Substantial part of double issue devoted to article about Sylvia Plath (by Janet Malcolm)
1995 70th Anniversary double issue of magazine (dated 20 & 27 February); magazine begins publishing two fiction issues
a year1996 Joseph Mitchell dies (at magazine 58 years); “yes, in My Own Back Yard,” Steve Martin’s first New Yorker piece
published1997 Brendan Gill dies (his Here at the New Yorker was best seller)
1998 David Remnick becomes editor, succeeding Tina Brown
1999 The New Yorker becomes part of Condé Nast Publications; moves offices from 20 West Forty-third
Street to 4 Times Square; Saul Steinberg dies (contributed artwork for 40 years)2000 Magazine celebrates 75th anniversary; National Magazine Award for General Excellence; first annual
literary-and-arts festival in Manhattan2001 Magazine launches its web site newyorker.com; in issue following 9/11, magazine publishes issue without cartoons.
2004 Circulation passes one million. Seymour Hersh writes about Abu Ghraib scandal in three consecutive issues; The
Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker is published (edited by Robert Mankoff; Richard Avedon dies; Philip
Hamburger dies (worked under all five editors)2005 The New Yorker celebrates its 80th anniversary with 14 & 21st February issue