A Subtreasury of American Humor explained

A Subtreasury of American Humor is a 1941 anthology edited by E. B. White and Katharine White, of contemporary United States humor writers. Both editors were long-time contributors of The New Yorker, and the collection has been sometimes termed as "the New Yorker school of American Humor."^[1] Kurt Vonnegut said in 1976 that "an awful lot" of his work is rooted in this single book.^[2]

Following the success of the book, the following year Morris Bishop published A Treasury of British Humor.^[3]

External links

• Contents
• A subtreasury of American humor at GoogleBooks

Notes and References

1. Dorson, Richard M. (1942) Reviewed work(s): A Subtreasury of American Humor by E. B. White; Katherine S. White, in The New England Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Mar., 1942), pp. 180-183
2. Kurt Vonnegut (1976) interview with Charles Reilly, in Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut quote:
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=5iu8AAAAIAAJ The publishers weekly, Volume 142, Issue 1