Backward ran sentences : the best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker

Considered the equal to White, Thurber and Liebling during his three decades at The New Yorker, from the late 1920s until his death in 1958, Gibbs was a mainstay of the magazine.  He published poems, short stories, profiles, casuals and acted as the magazine’s theater critic.   He also found time to write a hit play, Season in the Sun, that was based on a series of short stories he had published in The New Yorker.