Thurber, James Grover (1894–1961)
US humorist. His short stories, written mainly for the New Yorker magazine, include ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ (1932). His doodle drawings include fanciful impressions of dogs.
| Born in Columbus, Ohio, Thurber was partially blind as a result of an accident in childhood; he became totally blind in the last ten years of his life but continued to work. His stories and sketches are collected in Is Sex Necessary? (with E B White) 1929, The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze 1935, The Last Flower 1939, and My World and Welcome to It 1942. He also wrote adult fairy tales – Many Moons 1943, The Great Quillow 1944, The White Deer 1945, The 13 Clocks 1950, and The Wonderful O 1957 – and a play (with Elliot Nugent), The Male Animal 1940. |
