Harold Louis Humes; Novelist, Co-Founder of Paris Review

Harold Louis Humes, 66, novelist and a co-founder of the Paris Review literary quarterly. Humes’ best-known novels included “The Underground City” in 1958 and “Men Die” in 1960. He started the magazine, with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton as editor, in Paris in 1951. Now published in New York, the magazine has been a showcase for such authors as Philip Roth and V. S. Naipaul. On Thursday in New York of cancer.