his editor was Katherine S. White. she wrote a memo to Ross about editing that included “There was a long memo to Ross about the editing of fiction: she listed twenty-seven names, all of them contributors who had complained, with varying degrees of vehemence, about being overedited, and she urged Ross to go easy with his queries, and told him that several important writers, including Faulkner and Hemingway, refused to submit their fiction to The New Yorker for fear of Ross’s tampering.” (New Yorker, Feb 19, 1996, Nancy Franklin)