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	James Thurber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894–November 2, 1961) was a U.S. humorist and cartoonist.
		Thurber teamed with college schoolmate (and actor/director) Elliot Nugent to write a major Broadway hit comic drama of the late 1930's, "The Male Animal" (made into a film in 1942, starring Henry Fonda, Olivia de Haviland, and Jack Carson.).
		Near the end of his life, Thurber finally was able to fulfill his long-standing desire to be on the professional stage by playing himself in a few performances of the anthology "A Thurber Carnival," made up of various acted-out stories and cartoon captions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Thurber (1264 words)

	The Thurber House \| James Thurber
		James Thurber, one of the outstanding American humorists of the twentieth century, is known for his distinctively funny cartoons and short stories.
		Thurber was born in Columbus on December 8, 1894.
		Thurber died of complications from pneumonia on November 2, 1961.
	www.thurberhouse.org /james/james.html (319 words)

	James Thurber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Thurber's colleagues from the glory days of American humor (unphotogenic types such as Benchley, Parker, and Perelman) are gone, but Thurber and his drawings of meek husbands and sympathetic bloodhounds still occupy a few lonely inches of shelf space.
		Thurber and other writers of the late 1920s were part of the shift toward the vernacular in American humor, in contrast to Mark Twain and other late-19th-century writers who used dialects as a comic device, which was a reaction to the baroque language of English humorists.
		Thurber claimed his writing was more popular among women, and that he had "feminine" qualities himself -- which, to his continued chagrin, meant that women often pursued him as a friend rather than as a lover.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/12-95/JAMES_THURBER.html (2057 words)

	Galethurber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It took Thurber some time to demonstrate that he neither desired to be nor was capable of being a managing editor, but when Thurber extended a vacation to Columbus for two days in order to look for his lost dog, Ross realized that he had not chosen the right man for the job.
		Thurber then takes his story a step further, though; the narrator’s wife, in her realistic fashion is seized by the thought of the number of hats involved.
		Thurber’s 307 drawings, most of which were cartoons, brought him almost as much fame as his prose did, though the first attempts to place his art work in the New Yorker were as inauspicious as had been the efforts with his short stories.
	www.compedit.com /galethurber.htm (5426 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: James Thurber: His Life and Times
		Thurber was not being taken in; the city had made an official and giddy response of approval to the designation, and asked Thurber to contribute to the event.
		If Thurber was granted instant forgiveness for satirizing his hometown, and Wolfe, Faulkner, and Lewis were not, it was because Thurber's truth was softened with a rich comedy too enjoyable to offend.
		Nobody could be certain where Thurber wished to be buried; he collapsed from a blood clot on the brain in October 1961, in New York, remained nearly comatose for a month after an operation, and died without regaining full consciousness.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/thurber.htm (1336 words)

	James Thurber
		Thurber tended toward stories about very odd happenings and very odd people -- stories which he related in a measured, dry, calm style that was the perfect foil for his subject matter.
		Thurber suggests that the world we accept as "normal," "sane," "well-ordered," and "efficient" is in fact not normal at all; it is dry, bureaucratic, and fundamentally ridiculous.
		Thurber obviously was deeply suspicious of women; in many of his stories they appear as dominating, dangerous, and ugly figures, with whom no one can reason.
	www.storybites.com /thurber.htm (754 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: James Thurber
		Ohio-born satirical writer James Thurber was most noted for his ability to illustrate, through the use of humor, the frailties of human beings in a world seemingly dominated by forces of their own making.
		Thurber was born in Columbus in 1894,; during a time when the United States was experiencing great change due to the forces of industrial development: explosive urban growth, immigration, labor upheavals, and the dizzying pace of technological advancement.
		Thurber's poor eyesight--as a child his brother William accidentally shot him in the eye with a bow and arrow--prevented him from enjoying an active childhood and later in life rendered him legally blind.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201213 (679 words)

	MSN Encarta - James Thurber
		James Thurber (1894-1961), American cartoonist and author, whose writings, which range from gentle whimsy to irony, gained him a place as one of America's greatest 20th-century humorists.
		Thurber's cartoons, often depicting melancholy-looking animals or oversized wives bedeviling undersized husbands, are also much admired.
		Thurber was the author of many successful books that focus on the frustrations of average men faced with the overwhelming pressures of everyday modern life.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761573564 (343 words)

	A Visit from Saint Nicholas In The Ernest Hemingway Manner by James Thurber
		James Grover Thurber was born on December 8, 1894 in Columbus, Ohio.
		As a result, Thurber excelled at academics throughout his school years and, although he was quite popular in school, he tended to spend many hours alone studying, developing elaborate fantasies for his own amusement and teaching himself to draw.
		Throughout it all, however, Thurber continued to write comedy and, even if it was humor with a darker edge, it still made light of the world and the people who lived in it.
	thenostalgialeague.com /olmag/st_nicholas.html (1146 words)

	James Thurber - An American Humorist’s Life and Work
		James Grover Thurber was born at 251 Parsons Avenue in Columbus, Ohio, on December 8, 1894.
		He was named for James Grover, the town's first librarian, a Methodist minister, and a close friend of his mother's father.
		In 1901, "Jamie" Thurber was the victim of an accident that would change his life forever.
	homepage.mac.com /joestory/hannah/jthurber/page1.htm (384 words)

	Item Description
		James Thurber (1894-1961) was born in Columbus, Ohio.
		Young James was partially blinded by a childhood accident--his brother William shot an arrow at him.
		Thurber continued to compose stories in his head, and he played himself in 88 performances of the play A Thurber Carnival.
	worlddmc.ohiolink.edu /OMP/NewDetails?oid=2077817 (352 words)

	James Thurber - An American Humorist’s Life and Work
		Thurber stayed at work for the Sundial for several years until in February 1927, Thurber was hired as a staff writer at The New Yorker.
		On the afternoon of November 2nd, 1961, Thurber's wife Helen received a call from the hospital telling her that her husband was fading fast.
		James Thurber's ashes were buried at Columbus's Green Lawn Cemetery with his family on November 8, 1961.
	homepage.mac.com /joestory/hannah/jthurber/page5.htm (320 words)

	Biography
		James Grover Thurber was born of Charles Thurber and Mame Fisher on December 8th, 1894 in a house given to his parents by his grandfather, William M. Thurber, that same year.
		When she was born, Thurber became softened and returned to be a good father to his child and they bought an estate named "Sandy Hook".
		James was agreeable and even very generous when it came to settlement terms (included in the terms drawn by his lawyer was the custody of Rosemary, Sandy Hook, the family insurance policies, alimony and child suport, as well as a portion of the royalties of his upcoming book My Life and Hard Times.
	members.fortunecity.com /1stbell/bio.html (2466 words)

	Blind Wit - James Thurber's tragedy. By Wilfrid Sheed
		But Thurber's letters seem to me inexpressibly sad, perhaps because one can perceive the blindness setting in slowly—and, having seen the back of his biography, one also knows that there will be no great poems, so to speak, deriving from it.
		Thurber's world cannot remotely be understood without understanding Prohibition, or the locker-room version of it: a plot brewed up by women and Protestant ministers while our soldiers were overseas, in order to end America's men-only culture and bring the boys all the way home, not just as far as the nearest saloon.
		Later, Thurber would talk about how well he and Ross had worked together, but I surmise that this was mainly because he'd been riding so high at the time and was awfully easy to be nice to.
	www.slate.com /id/2088577?nav=tap3 (1407 words)

	AllRefer.com - James Thurber (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Columbus, Ohio, studied at Ohio State Univ. After working on various newspapers he served on the staff of the New Yorker from 1927 to 1933 and was later a principal contributor, considerably influencing the tone of that magazine through his various drawings, stories, and anecdotes of his misadventures.
		Beneath the vague outlines of Thurber's cartoons and the wistful and ironic improbabilities of his writings, there is a deep psychological insight that sets him apart from most 20th-century humorists.
		Thurber's later career was hampered by his growing blindness.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Thurber.html (329 words)

	Mission Impossible - Why is Henry James the subject of two recent novels? By Stephen Metcalf
		James was good at what most geniuses, from Wordsworth to Bob Dylan, have been good at: being distinctively, royally, ridiculously himself.
		James, in his person and his work, helped create the modern attitude of high-toned disdain for commerce from which literature derives much of its power in a mass culture.
		For that critic, James' most basic assumption—that life is in essence consciousness and interpretation, and not action and the fight for commercial advantage—is quite flattering.
	www.slate.com /id/2108064 (1237 words)

	James Thurber
		Thurber's best-known characters are Walter Mitty, his snarling wife, and silently observing animals.
		Thurber described her as "a born comedienne" and "one of the finest comic talents I think I've ever known." Thurber's father, who had dreams of being an actor or lawyer, was said to have been the basis of the typical small, slight man of Thurber's stories.
		Thurber died of a blood clot on the brain on November 2, 1961, in New York.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /thurber.htm (1285 words)

	James Thurber Pathfinder
		Thurber is clearly much more of a literary figure, but some recognition also exists in the other worlds.
		Thurber's writing and unusual drawings struck a chord with the popular culture, and so he spent a large part of his life as a celebrity.
		As the publication where the majority of Thurber's short works were first printed when he was a writer on staff, the New Yorker is a good source of articles by and about the subject.
	www.budgetweb.com /heather/thurber/Thurber.html (2705 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: James Thurber
		James Thurber was the perfect writer for our anxious century.
		Like the other writers he describes, Thurber talked "largely about small matters and smally about great affairs." In the latest volume of The Library of America, he talks largely and smally for more than 1,000 pages.
		They are part of the Thurber trinity: a domineering woman, a tremulous man, and a thurberhound.
	www.bookpage.com /9610bp/nonfiction/jamesthurber.html (429 words)

	Draft Thurber Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When James was seven years old, he was blinded in his left eye in a bow-and-arrow accident.
		Thurber won renown as the quintessential New Yorker humorist, the heir of Robert Benchley and peer of E. White, with whom he collaborated on the 1929 best-seller Is Sex Necessary?
		Both stories demonstrate Thurber's mastery of competing styles, the inflated, clichéd idiom of fantasy, the ragged rhythms of everyday life, and holding it all together, the commanding poise of the narrator.
	www.williams.edu /English/faculty/rbell/HersheysThurber.html (1200 words)

	James Thurber, Dogs, Wildfires, and Larry Woiwode
		Thurber was a mainstay at the old New Yorker until he died in 1961.
		She had snarled at them and they had growled at her all during her stay with us, and not even my mother remembers how she persuaded the old lady to come back for a weekend, but she did, and what is more, she cajoled Aunt Mary into feeding "those dreadful brutes" the evening she arrived.
		Thurber's mother borrowed sixteen dogs from the neighborhood street, and hid them in the cellar, so at feeding time, she had Mary set the food down in front of the cellar door and open it up:
	www.ralphmag.org /AW/new.html (1870 words)

	KET Presents: James Thurber documentary on KET offers in-depth look at American humorist
		James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times, a portrait of the humorist and author features an interview with writer John Updike (pictured).
		James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times, the first major documentary about James Thurber (1894-1961), chronicles his varied accomplishments as writer, journalist, playwright, cartoonist and social critic--all despite the blindness that handicapped him for the last 20 years of his life.
		Considered one of the greatest American humorists since Mark Twain, Thurber is known throughout the world for his classic short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." His comic drawings--made famous in the New Yorker magazine, for which he worked for many years--were admired by many, including Henri Matisse and George Grosz.
	www.ket.org /pressroom/2000/01/Thurber_homepage.html (317 words)

	A James Thurber Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James Grover Thurber was an author, cartoonist and humorist who grew up in Columbus Ohio, and gained his fame writing articles and cartoons that graced the pages of the New Yorker from 1927 until his death in 1961.
		Thurber has his own Filmography and (rather skimpy) Biography: His Filmography on the database is still incomplete, so I hope to send the IMD folks some updates soon.
		Thurber loved the English language, and was constantly at war with those who sought to reduce it to nonsensical babble, jingos, and slanguish.
	home.earthlink.net /~ritter/thurber (985 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large
		Thurber was gregarious, a prankster (Ross invariably fell for his fake phone calls in bizarre accents), almost a rowdy; White was cautious, dispassionate.
		The Thurber woman is generally thought of as bossy, angry, unreasonable, whether encountered in his stories—most famously “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “The Catbird Seat”—or in cartoons, like the one that shows a meek little husband approaching a house that is morphing into a huge, threatening wife.
		What stung Thurber most was that so much of his writing was being rejected by the magazine, and by what he was determined to interpret as the dismissive attitude of the new regime.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/atlarge/?030908crat_atlarge (4213 words)

	Ohio Reading Road Trip \| James Thurber Criticism and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		"Thurber, the Critics, and I" is a critical overview of Thurber by Charles E. Johnson.
		James Thurber has long been recognized as one of America's leading modern humorists.
		James Thurber, an American original in humor, satire, nonsense, drawing, and patently a wild tyrannothesaurus type when on the hunt for words, slipped into the field of children's literature by the back front gate, like"
	www.ohioreadingroadtrip.org /thurber/criticism.html (988 words)

	Amazon.com: Wonderful o: Books: James Thurber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In his witty and provocative way, Thurber creates a land where the letter "o" has been removed from all words in a ploy to punish the townspeople for their noncooperation in helping the villains find the object of their quest.
		Thurber treats the listener to a myriad of situations and words in the new world without "o's." A sense of drama and distinctive elocution serve Melissa Manchester well as she brings Thurber's whimsical escapade to life.
		Thurber has written a hilarious book showing the pure chas and cnfusin that reign when the language is stripped of its O's.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556111894?v=glance (1475 words)

	James Thurber - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		James Thurber was born in 1894 at Columbus, Ohio, where, as he once said, so many awful things happened to him.
		From 1927 onwards he was on the staff of the New Yorker, and first published much of his work in it.
		Thurber's art was easy to recognise but hard to define.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000016534,00.html (184 words)

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