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About James Thurber: Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio to Charles L. Thurber and Mary Agnes (Mame) Fisher Thurber. Both of his parents greatly influence...
“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” ― James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Long before James Thurber was on the cover of Time and widely known as the greatest American humorist since Mark Twain, he was a not-so-young-and-aspiring writer who shared an office “the size ...
James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894 and died November 2, 1961, at age 67. His childhood included two life-long influences: his mother’s uncanny sense of dramatic humor, and an eye injury from an arrow sustained during a game of William Tell.
Oh, Thurber grew up surrounded by dogs. “Probably no one man should have as many dogs in his life as I have had, but there was more pleasure than distress in them for me except in the case of an Airedale named Muggs” is how he starts “The Dog That Bit People,” a story in what we’d now call his autofiction, “My Life and Hard Times.”
A suite of of cartoons and images by Thurber . In 1926, when Thurber entered the year-old New Yorker magazine as managing editor, its cartoons presented regimented, typical situations; it’s skillful artists created handsome drawings accompanied by short narratives or bits of dialogue.
Is the name of James Thurber, once a byword for humor, slowly slipping from the national consciousness? Only half a dozen years ago, the Library of America published a thousand-page volume of his ...
