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Thurber James:     more books (104)

Thurber: Writings and Drawings (Library of America) by James Thurber, 1996-10-01 My Life and Hard Times (Perennial Classics) by James Thurber, 1999-10-01 The Thurber Carnival (Perennial Classics) by James Thurber, 1999-10-01 The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom and Surprising Life of James Thurber Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated by James Thurber, 1983-04-23 Is Sex Necessary?: Or Why You Feel the Way You Do by James Thurber, E. B. White, 2004-11-01 The Wonderful O (Childrens Collection) by James Thurber, 2009-03-31 The 13 Clocks (Childrens Collection) by James Thurber, 2008-07-29 The Last Flower: A Parablein Pictures by James Thurber, 2007-11-01 Many Moons (A Harcourt Brace contemporary classic) by James Thurber, 1998-09-01 My World-and Welcome to It (Harvest Book) by James Thurber, 1969-03-19 James Thurber: 92 Stories by James Thurber, 1994-06-14 Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) by James Thurber, Edith Wharton, et all 2006-04-01 People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration Of Drawings And Writings By James Thurber by James Thurber, 1995-10-13

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1. James Thurber - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894–November 2, 1961) was a U.S. humorist and cartoonist. Thurber was best known for his contributions (both cartoons and  
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   Extractions: Occupation humorist Nationality American Writing period to Genres short stories cartoons essays Subjects humor language Influenced Bob Newhart Charles Bukowski Fran Lebowitz James Grover Thurber December 8 November 2 ) was a U.S. humorist and cartoonist . Thurber was best known for his contributions (both cartoons and short stories ) to The New Yorker magazine. Thurber worked hard in the 1920s, both in the U.S. and in France, to establish himself as a professional writer. However, unique among major American literary figures, he became equally well known for his simple, surrealistic drawings and cartoons. Both his skills were helped along by the support of, and collaboration with, fellow New Yorker staff member E. B. White . White insisted that Thurber's sketches could stand on their own as artistic expressions — and Thurber would go on to draw six covers and numerous classic illustrations for the New Yorker.

2. James Thurber
   James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio. His father, Charles L. Thurber, was a clerk and minor politician, who went through many periods of unemployment.  
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   Extractions: James (Grover) Thurber (1894-1961) American writer and cartoonist, who dealt with the frustrations of modern world. Thurber's best-known characters are Walter Mitty, his snarling wife, and silently observing animals. His stories have influenced later writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller . Thurber is generally acknowledged as the greatest American humorist since Mark Twain (1835-1910). '"What was the matter with that one policeman? mother asked, after they had gone. "Grandfather shot him," I said. "What for?" she demanded. I told her he was a deserter. "Of all things!" said mother. "He was such a nice-looking young man."' (from 'The Night the Ghost Got In', in My Life and Hard Times James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio. His father, Charles L. Thurber, was a clerk and minor politician, who went through many periods of unemployment. Mary Thurber, his mother, was a strong-minded woman and a practical joker. Once she surprised her guests by explaining that she was kept in the attic because of her love for the postman. On another occasion she pretended to be a cripple and attended a faith healer's revival, jumping up suddenly and proclaiming herself cured. 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. Later Thurber portrayed his family in MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES (1933). "I suppose that the high-water mark of my youth in Columbus, Ohio, was the night the bed fell on my father," Thurber wrote in the book.

3. James Thurber: CCPS Faculty & Staff
   thurber james James A. Thurber Director, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies B.A. University of Oregon M.A. Indiana University  
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4. James Thurber --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
   Britannica online encyclopedia article on James Thurber American writer and cartoonist, whose wellknown and highly acclaimed writings and drawings picture  
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   Extractions: Commonly Asked Questions About James Thurber Close Enable free complete viewings of Britannica premium articles when linked from your website or blog-post. Now readers of your website, blog-post, or any other web content can enjoy full access to this article on James Thurber , or any Britannica premium article for free, even those readers without a premium membership. Just copy the HTML code fragment provided below to create the link and then paste it within your web content. For more details about this feature, visit our

5. James Thurber - Wikiquote
   Thurber s World (and Welcome To it) James Thurber Web Collection includes online versions of some of his works; Pathfinder James Grover Thurber  
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   Extractions: Jump to: navigation search The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. James Grover Thurber 8 December 2 November ) was an American humorist and cartoonist. It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. All right, have it your way - you heard a seal bark!' Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (30 January 1932); "Women and Men", The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (1932); also used in "The Lady on the Bookcase", Alarms and Diversions Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?' Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (5 June 1937); "Word DancePart One", A Thurber Carnival I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?' Cartoon caption

6. James Thurber
   James Thurber is a survivor. In his prose and his cartoons, he withstands the venomous tongue and emasculating stare of the Thurber Woman.  
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   Extractions: Reviews Literary Calendar Authors in town Events by Location ... Hot Links JAMES THURBER: HIS LIFE AND TIMES, by Harrison Kinney. Henry Holt , 1238 pages, $40. James Thurber is a survivor. In his prose and his cartoons , he withstands the venomous tongue and emasculating stare of the Thurber Woman. In bookstores today, he holds on while the humor section is overrun by Letterman Seinfeld , and other TV Guide cover models. 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. Luckily, he's getting some new attention this month, the 100th anniversary of his birth, with the publication of James Thurber: His Life and Times , a massive biography by Harrison Kinney. Much of Thurber's best work came in the form of a New Yorker invention called the casual a short essay or story written in the tone of a friendly letter, albeit with the full force of that magazine's grammarians and fact-checkers behind it. Thurber and other writers of the late 1920s were part of the shift toward the vernacular in American humor, in contrast to

7. Review: The 13 Clocks By James Thurber
   James Thurber is best known as a writer and cartoonist for the New Yorker from 1927 until the 1950s. Over that period, he also wrote five children s books.  
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   Extractions: Beauty Russ Allbery Reviews The Children of Hurin by James Thurber Illustrator: Marc Simont Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: Format: Trade paperback Pages: James Thurber is best known as a writer and cartoonist for the New Yorker from 1927 until the 1950s. Over that period, he also wrote five children's books. This is one of them, a short illustrated children's fantasy, although illustrated by Marc Simont rather than by Thurber himself. The 13 Clocks has a very traditional plot structure. A beautiful princess is kept captive in a castle by an evil duke. A prince in disguise arrives in town and attracts the ire of the duke, who sets him an impossible challenge to win the hand of the princess. He's aided by the mysterious, magical Golux ("the only Golux in the world, and not a mere Device") to a predictable happy ending. The princess is never more than a goal and plot device, and barely gets any dialogue in the story. This feels stock, but Thurber writes with a playfulness and surrealistic edginess that rises above the plot. The story of the book is pitched young enough to be the sort of book that a parent would read to their child and the child would later read themselves, and it would be great fun to read aloud with silly voices. Thurber's writing is full of word play, puns, and bits of near poetry. The characters frequently make snide comments or contrasting comments after longer speeches or poetic sections; Thurber mixes up the language and gives the story a rhythm that draws the reader along. I also liked that the Golux feels only partly in this world and a bit incompetent because he isn't completely real; that's typical of a slightly twisted outlook that makes the story feel riskier. Thurber is capable of taking matters around odd corners, even if none of those corners step far out of the basic fantasy plot.

8. Newcritics - » The Staying Power Of James Thurber
   James Thurber Nobody talks much about James Thurber, anymore. I wonder why that is. When you look back at most of the great shortform literary humorists of  
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   Extractions: Nobody talks much about James Thurber, anymore. I wonder why that is. When you look back at most of the great short-form literary humorists of the early/mid 20 th century – from S. J. Perelman to Woody Allen – their stuff is almost impossible to read now. I remember laughing out loud when I first read them, but when, on re-reading them today, I can’t remember precisely why. Thurber’s different – his short stories (especially those gathered in 1933’s My Life and Hard Times ) are as funny today as they must have been when he first wrote them. I’m reminded of this over and over as I’ve read the stories out loud (on demand) over and over during the past five years to my son at bedtime. Yes, he’s 13 now, and could be reading them to himself, but, let’s face it, the old man does a bang-up job recreating the voices of Thurber’s bewildered and beleaguered father, his senescent and bellicose grandfather, and the omnipresent harbinger of the apocalypse known as “The Get-Ready Man.”

9. James Thurber
   James Thurber AKA James Grover Thurber. Born 8Dec-1894 Birthplace Columbus, OH Father Charles Leander Thurber (politician) Mother Mary Agnes Fisher  
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10. James Thurber
    James Thurber, one of the most famous humorists from the early 20th century, is from Columbus, Ohio. Here is a look at his life and career.  
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    Extractions: zGCID=" test0" zGCID=" test0 test4" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') You are here: About Columbus, OH Famous Central Ohioans James Thurber Columbus, OH Columbus, OH Essentials Columbus Area Events: January and More ... Submit to Digg Related Resources James Thurber Bibliography Poll: Who is the Most Famous Person from Central Ohio? Thurber House More About Columbus and Central Ohio Columbus and Central Ohio Blog Famous Central Ohioans News, Weather and More Recent Discussions Passion Parties Columbus OH Valentine Retreat - 2008 MI-OH Sportfishing Expo Most Popular Top Ten Things in Columbus Register to Vote in Ohio Central Ohio Bargain Shopping 740 Area Code ... Top 50 Columbus Employers From John Kazalia FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now! James Thurber, one of the most famous humorists from the early 20th century, is well-known by literary critics and fans around the country and around the world. Many of them, however, are unaware Thurber is from Columbus. James Grover Thurber was born December 8, 1894 in a small home on Parsons Avenue on Columbus' working-class south side (a home torn down to make way for I-70). James, or Jamie as he was known to his family, was son to Charles Thurber, who worked as a clerk in the office of Ohio Governor Asa Bushnell. Jamie had an older brother William and a younger brother Robert. Their mother was a housewife who had dreamed of being a comic actress but had parents who saw to it she never entered that "improper profession." By all accounts, her love of humor and theater made the Thurber home a fun and exciting place.

11. James Thurber - Artist, Art - James Grover Thurber
    James Thurber AskART art price guide for James Thurber and 54000+ American artists James Grover Thurber art prices, value art, art appraisal,  
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    Extractions: Artist Search a b c d ... z James Grover Thurber Research : James Grover Thurber Exhibits - current Magazine references Marketplace : James Grover Thurber For sale ads Wanted ads Auctions upcoming for him* Dealers Magazine ads pre-1998* Place a classified ad Lived/Active: New York Known for: illustrator-whimsical cartoons Back to Previous Page Login for full access Login Register ... View AskART Services

12. TheCapitol.Net > Faculty And Authors T To Z
    James A. thurber james A. THURBER is professor of government and director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies and the Campaign  
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    Extractions: KATHRYN DUNN TENPAS KATHRYN DUNN TENPAS is a visiting fellow with the Governance Studies division of the Brookings Institution, and associate director of the Washington Semester Program of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a fellow of the Governance Institute. Dr. Tenpas served as a member of The White House 2001 Project, where she prepared a study of the White House Office of the Staff Secretary to aid in the 2000-2001 presidential transition. She also served two terms on the Board of the American Political Science Association's Presidency Research Group, a national organization for presidency scholars. Dr. Tenpas' academic positions include her current affiliation with the University of Pennsylvania, and an associate professorship in the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida. While at the University of South Florida, Dr. Tenpas additionally directed the Political Science Honors Program and the Washington, D.C. internship program. From 1992-1993, she was a guest scholar with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Dr. Tenpas has authored the book Presidents as Candidates: Inside the White House for the Presidential Campaign, and numerous articles, papers and chapters. A sampling of recent publications include a chapter in The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2004 called, "How Incumbent Presidents Run for Reelection," a Brookings Review article, titled "Words vs. Deeds: President George W. Bush and Polling;" a Journal of Politics article "Explaining Increasing Turnover Rates Among Presidential Advisers, 1929-1997," co-authored with Matthew Dickinson; and a chapter in Workways of Governance, coauthored with Karen Hult, published jointly by Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute in the Fall of 2003.

13. Internet Book List :: Author Information: James Thurber
    James Grover Thurber, (USA, 18941961) a lanky Ohio-born journalist, came to national attention after his sketches, both graphic and verbal, began appearing  
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    Extractions: James Grover Thurber, (USA, 1894-1961) a lanky Ohio-born journalist, came to national attention after his sketches, both graphic and verbal, began appearing in The New Yorker in the 1930's. ("His pictures sell like hot cakes," a Thurber fan remarked, "and look like them, too.") In 1933 the publication of My Life and Hard Times , loosely based on the scenes and characters of his Colombus boyhood, made Thurber the most popular humorist in America: so popular that he was compared to Mark Twain, which annoyed him. (Some of his relatives were not happy with the book, charging that Thurber had made fun of the ancestors whose foibles he had so lovingly and accurately immortalized.) In addition to collections of his humorous pieces, fables, and cartoons (including the sketches of his immortal "Thurber dog") his works include several fairy tales for children and adults, the later ones illustrated by other artists after Thurber's eyesight (he was left half-blind after a childhood accident with a bow and arrow) had gotten too bad to allow him to draw.

14. James Thurber - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times
    A biography and related information about James Thurber.  
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15. James Thurber -- A Web Collection
    james thurber. A Web Collection. The Little Girl and the Wolf The Last Flower A Parable in Pictures A Unicorn in the Garden thurber and his works  
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16. The Thurber House | James Thurber
    Biography, tribute, the canon, quotable quotes. From the thurber House in Columbus, Ohio, a literary center for writers and readers.  
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    Extractions: James Thurber, one of the outstanding American humorists of the twentieth century, is known for his distinctively funny cartoons and short stories. His concise, witty prose spanned a breadth of genres, including autobiography, fiction, children's fantasy, and modern commentary, and two of his short stories, "The Catbird Seat" and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," are among the best-known classics of American literature. Thurber was born in Columbus on December 8, 1894. His father was a clerk who often served politicians, and his mother was an eccentric woman who would be an influence for many of his stories. Thurber had two brothers. As a young boy, Thurber lost sight in one of his eyes while playing "William Tell" with his brothers, an accident which eventually caused him to go completely blind later in life. Still, Thurber had a fairly normal childhood. Thurber attended local public schools. He went to the Ohio State University from 1913-1917, when the Thurbers rented the house at 77 Jefferson Avenue, which is now Thurber House. Due to his eye injury, Thurber never completed a compulsory ROTC course and did not graduate from Ohio State, though he received a posthumous degree.

17. A James Thurber Web Page
    Links to pages related to thurberabilia; news items; discussion group; thurber influences.  
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18. James Thurber Quotes - The Quotations Page
    james thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview james thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937; You might as well fall flat on your  
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19. James Thurber Quotes
    63 quotes and quotations by james thurber. james thurber A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn t make sense. james thurber  
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20. James Thurber
    A bibliography of james thurber s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.  
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    Extractions: Fantastic Fiction Authors T James Thurber Preferences google_ad_client = "pub-4149752303753296";google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/frames/banner.htm";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 60;google_ad_format = "468x60_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="5061332721";google_color_border = "6699CC";google_color_bg = "003366";google_color_link = "FFFFFF";google_color_url = "AECCEB";google_color_text = "AECCEB"; Home Awards New Books Coming Soon ... Years Browse Authors A H O V ... U (James Grover Thurber) Search Authors Search Books About James Thurber The shy Midwesterner James Thurber became a famed cartoonist and humor writer almost, it seems, by accident: Thurber in person was often depressed and self-conscious, darker strains that emerge fitfully in his sly, absurdist work. Garrison Keillor, a sunnier brand of Midwestern humorist, has assembled four longer works with many of Thurber's drawings and short pieces for the Library of America edition of Thurber's selected works. Many of these cartoons and writings are now classics, and Thurber's edgy, modernist humornot to mention his usually bewildered protagonistshas influenced many of the best cartoonists today. Novels Oh My, Omar

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