Comic Relief: An Omnibus of Modern American Humor

by Robert N. Linscott

Excerpt from Comic Relief

Benchley; also for 'what Should Children Tell Parents?' froth Is Sex Necessary? By James Thurber and E. B. White.

318 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2018

About the author

Robert Newton Linscott (May 1, 1886 – September 25, 1964) was an American editor. From 1904 to 1944, Linscott was an editor at Houghton-Mifflin. He served as editor for early Truman Capote and Carson McCullers works. From 1944 until his retirement in 1957, Linscott was the senior editor for Random House.

Linscott himself edited a number of collections for both houses, among them Best American Humorous Short Stories (1945), Best Short Stories of Bret Harte (1947), The World's Great Thinkers: A Boston Reader (1948), Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1957), and Letters and Poems of Emily Dickinson (1959).