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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

Category: American Literature

Born: December 8, 1894
Columbus, Ohio, United States

Died: November 2, 1961
New York City, New York, United States

Related authors:
E. B. White, P. G. Wodehouse

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3/18/1939		Thurber: Mitty and Dangerous On this day in 1939 James Thurber published "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" in The New Yorker. It became one of the most anthologized stories in American literature, and his "ta-poketa-poketa" hero became the archetype for dreamy, hapless, Thurber Man ā€“ a species with which he was all too familiar.

11/2/1961		James Thurber's Comic Vision When he was a boy, James Thurber lost an eye when he and his brother were playing with their homemade bows and arrows, and then late in life he lost the sight in the other one. In between, he developed the comic vision and the cartoons of homo Thurberus, and made him, said one American critic in the 50s, "the greatest and most original humorist this country has produced."

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Is Sex Necessary by James Thurber, E. B. White fiction
James Thurber: Writings and Drawings by Garrison Keillor (Editor), James Thurber anthology
My Life and Hard Times autobiography
The Last Flower: A Parable in Pictures fiction, illustration
The Male Animal by James Thurber, Elliot Nugent drama
The Thurber Carnival ("The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "Fables for Our Time," "My Life and Hard Times") anthology, fiction

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James Thurber: His Life and Times
by Harrison Kinney
biography

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