Experience Literature

James Thurber (1894-1961)

LINKS James Thurber: We Call Him Jamie
http://www.thurberhouse.org/DefaultJamesThurber.htm
The Thurber House, a Literary Center for Writers and Readers, offers those interested in Thurber selections of his cartoons, a biography of his life, an annotated bibliography of his work, a Thurber “Quote of the Day,” and much more.

James Thurber—A Web Collection
http://www.bigeye.com/thurber.htm
BigEye.Com provides reprints of Thurber’s “The Little Girl and the Wolf,” “The Unicorn in the Garden,” and his parable in pictures, “The Last Flower.”

WashingtonPost.com: James Thurber: His Life and Times
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/thurber.htm
Harrison Kinney explores the close relationship James Thurber had with his native Columbus, Ohio, in this article from the Washington Post.

San Antonio College’s LitWeb James Thurber Page
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/thurber.htm
This bibliography of Thurber’s publications provides links to reviews of Thurber’s work.

James Thurber
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/thurber.htm
“Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility,” and more of James Thurber’s one-liners are available in this in-depth look at his life.

BIOGRAPHY
James Thurber (1894-1961). Born in Columbus, Ohio, Thurber went through the local public schools and graduated from Ohio State University. He began his writing career as a reporter, first for an Ohio newspaper, and later in Paris and New York City, before he became a staff member of the New Yorker. There he wrote the humorous satirical essays and fables (often illustrated with his whimsical drawings of people and animals) upon which his reputation rests, the most famous being "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."

In 1929, he and another New Yorker staffer, E. B. White, wrote Is Sex Necessary? or, Why You Feel the Way You Do, a spoof of the increasingly popular new psychological theories. In 1933, he published his humorous autobiography, My Life and Hard Times. With Elliott Nugent, he wrote The Male Animal (1940), a comic play that pleads for academic freedom, and, in 1959, he memorialized his associates at the New Yorker in The Years with Ross.