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James Thurber
James Thurber (1894-1961) created some thirty volumes of humor, fiction, children's books, cartoons, and essays in just about as many years. A founding member of The New Yorker staff, Thurber wrote and illustrated such enduring books as The Thurber Carnival and My Life and Hard Times, which have... show more

James Thurber (1894-1961) created some thirty volumes of humor, fiction, children's books, cartoons, and essays in just about as many years. A founding member of The New Yorker staff, Thurber wrote and illustrated such enduring books as The Thurber Carnival and My Life and Hard Times, which have appeared in countless editions and dozens of languages throughout the world.
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Birth date: December 08, 1894
Died: November 02, 1961
Category:
Humor, Literature & Fiction
James Thurber's Books
The 13 Clocks - James Thurber, Marc Simont My Life and Hard Times - James Thurber The Thurber Carnival - James Thurber, Michael J. Rosen The Wonderful O - James Thurber Many Moons - James Thurber, Louis Slobodkin The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Thurber The Paris Review Interviews, II - Harold Bloom, Graham Greene, James Baldwin, Alice Munro, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Philip Gourevitch, The Paris Review, Eudora Welty, John Gardner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Peter Carey, Robert Lowell, William Gaddis, James Thurber, Philip Larkin, Gabriel García Márq The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces - James Thurber The White Deer - James Thurber The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories - Peter Ackroyd, W. Somerset Maugham, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Pullman, H.G. Wells, Louis de Bernières, Joyce Carol Oates, William F. Nolan, E. Nesbit, M.R. James, Eudora Welty, Dennis Wheatley, Alec Guinness, Alexander Woollcott, Lord Dunsany, Fritz Leiber, H. Rider Hagga Writings and Drawings (Library of America #90) - James Thurber, Garrison Keillor Is Sex Necessary?, or Why You Feel the Way You Do - James Thurber, E.B. White, John Updike The 50 Funniest American Writers: According to Andy Borowitz - Bernie Mac, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, George Saunders, H.L. Mencken, David Rakoff, Susan Orlean, Terry Southern, Jean Shepherd, O. Henry, Wanda Sykes, Hunter S. Thompson, Nora Ephron, Sinclair Lewis, E.B. White, Henry Beard, Bruce Jay Friedman, Roy Blount Jr., James Fifty Great Short Stories - Edith Wharton, E.M. Forster, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, John Steinbeck, W. Somerset Maugham, Dorothy Parker, Francis Steegmuller, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Hemingway, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, H.L. Mencken, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, Short Story Masterpieces - Henry James, John Steinbeck, W. Somerset Maugham, Ernest Hemingway, Mary McCarthy, James Joyce, Robert Penn Warren, Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, William Carlos Williams, John Collier, Sinclair Lewis, Conrad Aiken, John Cheever, Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about the End of the World - Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, J.G. Ballard, Robert Silverberg, Philip K. Dick, Howard Fast, Robert Sheckley, James Tiptree Jr., James Thurber, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, John Varley, Richard Kadrey, Robert Reed, James Frenkel, C.C. Shackleton, Frank L. Pollack, Fr The 13 Clocks; and, The wonderful O - James Thurber, Ronald Searle Short Shorts - Leo Tolstoy, Irving Howe, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Heinrich Böll, Anton Chekhov, William Carlos Williams, Octavio Paz, Luigi Pirandello, João Guimarães Rosa, Katherine Anne Porter, Yukio Mishima, Doris Lessing, Grace Paley, James Thurber, Sholem My World And Welcome To It - James Thurber The Years with Ross - James Thurber
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Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatu... Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories - Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye, Edward D. Hoch, Henry James, Donald A. Wollheim, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mark Twain, Robert Bloch, Washington Irving, Bernhardt J. Hurwood, Don Marquis, Darrell Schweitzer, Bertha Runkle, Isaac Asimov, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Elizabeth Counselma
My Life and Hard Times - James Thurber
The Wood Duck - James Thurber, Jonathan Lethem
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Thurber
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The Folio Book of Comic Short Stories - Dorothy Parker, Paul Cox, P.G. Wodehouse, O. Henry, Anthony Trollope, V.S. Pritchett, Muriel Spark, Evelyn Waugh, Saki, Damon Runyon, James Thurber, David Hughes, Robertson Davies, Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Lawson, W.W. Jacobs, Stephen Leacock, Richmal Crompton, Ben Travers, S
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Laine The Librarian
Laine The Librarian rated it 8 years ago
text Walter Mitty
Meet Walter Mitty. He's a Husband. He's a Captain of a Navy ship He's a toughest man on the trial He's the man who can a woman from distress and is a hero to all man kind. He's also worrying his wife, his co-workers, his boss and his shrink. Walter Mitty has dreams. Dreams of being a her...
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Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it 9 years ago
text The Folio Book of Comic Short Stories
An anthology of 22 short comedic pieces, I picked this up on impulse at a UBS, because I'd never read any of the authors before (correction: I've read Wodehouse) and there were more than a couple names here that I'd often felt like I should have read, but hadn't; I was afraid they'd be weighty and, ...
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Reader! Reader!
Reader! Reader! rated it 9 years ago
text The Wonderful O
An odd little story full of wordplay. What happens when the letter O is banned? Chas! Cnfusin!Much of the text has a singsong quality--but not all of it. A little uneven. I would actually love to see this performed on stage. It could make a great high school performance, as it would be quite short ...
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Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it 10 years ago
text My Life and Hard Times
Deducted 1/2 star for being too short. Otherwise an excellent example of midcentury, midwestern humor excellently written. This slim volumes reads as a collection of short essays about the early part of Thurber's life and his eccentric family. I won't go so far as to say they are laugh-out-loud ...
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Reading For The Heck Of It
Reading For The Heck Of It rated it 10 years ago
text It can be difficult to delineate a single genre to some books
I find it difficult to categorize the genre which will fully describe The Thurber Carnival. It is humor with a generous helping of autobiography sprinkled with cartoons. There's short stories such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty which I mentioned previously. There are also twists on fairytales (o...
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