A Subtreasury of American Humor

by E. B. White , Katharine Sergeant Angell White , Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , Leonard Q. Ross , Frank R. Stockton , Anita Loos , Sinclair Lewis , John Mosher , Edward Streeter , Dorothy Parker , Arthur Kober , Heywood Broun , Mark Twain , Ring Lardner , James Thurber , George Ade , Don Marquis , Ambrose Bierce , Frank Moore Colby , Frederick Swartwout Cozzens , Charles Heber Clark , Francis Steegmuller , James T. Fields , Cornelia Otis Skinner , Washington Irving , Orpheus C. Kerr , James Russell Lowell , V. Petroleum Nasby , Finley Peter Dunne , James M. Cain , Frank Sullivan , Eugene Field , Robert C. Benchley , Donald Ogden Stewart , Franklin P. Adams , Wolcott Gibbs , Corey Ford , Nunnally Johnson , Bret Harte , S. J. Perelman , Lucretia P. Hale , Sally Benson , Booth Tarkington , Ogden Nash , Clifford Orr , Benjamin Franklin , H. L. Mencken , Clarence Day , Kenneth Fearing , E. E. Cummings , Russell Maloney , Geoffrey Hellman , Marc Connelly , Joel Chandler Harris , M , Glen Rounds , A. J. Liebling , George W. Harris , Alfred Henry Lewis , Roark Bradford , Frances Warfield , Morris Bishop , Nathaniel Parker Willis , Oliver Herford , Will Cuppy , Alexander Woolcott , Clifton Fadiman , Edgar Allan Poe , Persis Greely Anderson , Phyllis McGinley , Joseph Mitchell , Alva Johnston , Sanderson Vanderbilt , E. J. Kahn Jr. , John McNulty , Angela Cypher , H. C. Bunner , Louis Untermeyer , Irwin Edman , Stephen Vincent Benét , Carolyn Wells , Samuel Hoffenstein , David McCord , Arthur Guiterman , Bert Leston Taylor , Clarence Hollister Knapp , Kenneth Allan Robinson , Richard Lockridge , Lee Strout White , Ruth Ann McKinney , William Saroyan and Ludwig Bemelmans

First published 1941