Howard Brubaker was an editor of Success and Liberator and a contributor to Collier's Weekly, The New Republic, Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, and many other magazines. He published over 100 short stories and a number of non-fiction pieces on contemporary affairs, especially national politics. He is best known for "Of All Things", a by-liner column that ran weekly in the New Yorker for over twenty-five years. This column was composed of six or eight two sentence paragraphs that offered humorous and satirical comments on contemporary happenings and personages. Many of these brief paragraphs were reprinted in newspapers across the country.
From the guide to the The Howard Brubaker Papers, 1907-1957, (© 2012 Fales Library and Special Collections)
