James Thurber (1894–1961)
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Born in Columbus, Ohio, Thurber was blinded in one eye in a childhood accident. He attended Ohio State University but left without earning a degree. In 1925 he moved to New York City, where he joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1927 at the urging of his friend E. B. White. For the rest of his visa mer lifetime, Thurber contributed to the magazine his highly individual pieces and those strange, wry, and disturbing pen-and-ink drawings of "huge, resigned dogs, the determined and sometimes frightening women, the globular men who try so hard to think so unsuccessfully." The period from 1925, when the New Yorker was founded, until the death of its creator-editor, Harold Ross, in 1951, was described by Thurber in delicious and absorbing detail in The Years with Ross (1959). Of his two great talents, Thurber preferred to think of himself primarily as a writer, illustrating his own books. He published "fables" in the style of Aesop (see Vol. 2) and La Fontaine (see Vol. 2)---usually with a "barbed tip of contemporary significance"---children's books, several plays (two Broadway hits, one successful musical revue), and endless satires and parodies in short stories or full-length works. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," included in My World---and Welcome to It (1942), is probably his best-known story and continues to be frequently anthologized. T. S. Eliot described Thurber's work as "a form of humor which is also a way of saying something serious." (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Verk av James Thurber
Thurber's men, women, and dogs, a book of drawings with a preface by Dorothy Parker (1943) 190 exemplar
Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor, and Himself (1989) — Författare — 125 exemplar
People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration Of Drawings And Writings (1994) 58 exemplar
Thurber and Company: A New Collection of Drawings of Male and Female Animals Including the Human (1966) 49 exemplar
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 2 (1963) 40 exemplar
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber:Two Volume Set (1974) 39 exemplar
Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2005) 38 exemplar
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 1 (1963) 35 exemplar
Is Sex Necessary?, etc 3 exemplar
The Wood Duck [short story] 3 exemplar
Il più grand'uomo del mondo: racconti 3 exemplar
Love Is A Funny Business (Quick Reader 126) 3 exemplar
Interview with a Lemming [short story] 3 exemplar
The Night the Bed Fell 3 exemplar
The Little Girl and the Wolf {short story} 3 exemplar
The Departure of Emma Inch {short story} 2 exemplar
The Scotty Who Knew Too Much {short story' 2 exemplar
A Thurber garland 2 exemplar
A Thurber Carnival 2 exemplar
Doc Marlowe [short story] 2 exemplar
The years with Ross 2 exemplar
You Could Look It Up 2 exemplar
My World---And Welcome to It 1 exemplar
Secret Life Of Walter Mitty And Other Play 1 exemplar
Thurber Carnival, Thw 1 exemplar
13 האורלוגין 1 exemplar
Further Fables of Our Times 1 exemplar
Trzynaście zegarów 1 exemplar
A Thurber Carnival (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 16] 1 exemplar
De tretten ure 1 exemplar
Memorable Quotations from James Thurber 1 exemplar
The Rgurber Album 1 exemplar
A Full Confession 1 exemplar
My Life and Hard Times, etc 1 exemplar
O cartaz de Mr. Martin 1 exemplar
Favole per il nostro tempo 1 exemplar
A Couple of Hamburgers {short story} 1 exemplar
The Shrike and the Chipmunks {short story} 1 exemplar
A Ride with Olympy {essay} 1 exemplar
The Hound and the Bug 1 exemplar
The Macbeth Murder Mystery 1 exemplar
The Secret Life of James Thurber {essay} 1 exemplar
Memoirs of a Drudge {essay} 1 exemplar
The Lady on 142 {short story} 1 exemplar
The Foolhardy Mouse and the Curious Cat 1 exemplar
La notte degli spiriti e altre storie 1 exemplar
James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times 1 exemplar
Sælen der blev berømt og andre historier 1 exemplar
[No title] 1 exemplar
The Lady on the Bookcase 1 exemplar
The Great Quillow 1 exemplar
Zehn goldene Regeln für das Zusammenleben mit 100 warnenden Beispielen / Der Hund, der die Leute biß. Und andere… (1996) 1 exemplar
Thurbers Men Women & Dogs a Book of Drawings 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 915 exemplar
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 706 exemplar
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 562 exemplar
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 244 exemplar
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 131 exemplar
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Bidragsgivare — 102 exemplar
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Bidragsgivare — 96 exemplar
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 81 exemplar
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 77 exemplar
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 66 exemplar
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 55 exemplar
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 30 exemplar
Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1: A Reader of American Short Stories (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
The Defective Detective: Mystery Parodies by the Great Humorists (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Alexanders langes Leben, Stalins früher Tod und andere abwegige Geschichten. Erzählungen und Berichte aus… (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
American Short Stories, Vol.5, The Twentieth Century (1957) — Författare, vissa utgåvor — 11 exemplar
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Rex Lardner Selects the Best of Sports Fiction — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Eleven American Stories — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Configurations: American Short Stories for the EFL Classroom, Advanced Level (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Al pie del acantilado — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Behind the Wheel: Stories of Cars on Road and Track — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Thurber, James
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Thurber, James Grover
- Födelsedag
- 1894-12-08
- Avled
- 1961-11-02
- Begravningsplats
- Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Dödsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Dödsorsak
- complications from pneumonia
- Bostadsorter
- Washington, D.C., USA
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
Columbus, Ohio, USA - Utbildning
- Ohio State University
- Yrken
- cartoonist
author
playwright
reporter
code clerk - Organisationer
- The New Yorker
U.S. Department of State - Priser och utmärkelser
- Caldecott Medal (1944)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
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- 149
- Även av
- 152
- Medlemmar
- 16,454
- Popularitet
- #1,379
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 335
- ISBN
- 317
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- 13
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