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James Thurber - Wikipedia
9 Mar 2026 at 9:13am
James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 ? November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University (OSU), leaving in 1918 without graduating.

James Thurber | American Humorist, Cartoonist & Author | Britannica
8 Mar 2026 at 9:57am
James Thurber was an American writer and cartoonist, whose well-known and highly acclaimed writings and drawings picture the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is befuddled and beset by a world that he neither created nor understands.

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10 Mar 2026 at 1:19am
James Thurber was a humorist, cartoonist, author, playwright, and journalist known for his quirky and relatable characters and themes.

James Thurber
9 Mar 2026 at 1:09pm
James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894 and died November 2, 1961, at age 67. His childhood included two life-long influences: his mother?s uncanny sense of dramatic humor, and an eye injury from an arrow sustained during a game of William Tell.

List of works by James Thurber - Wikipedia
9 Mar 2026 at 9:06am
Thurber teamed with college schoolmate (and actor/director) Elliott Nugent to write The Male Animal, a comic drama that became a major Broadway hit in 1939. The play was adapted as a film by the same name in 1942, starring Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland and Jack Carson.

James Thurber Biography - Notable Biographies
9 Mar 2026 at 9:56am
James Thurber was an American writer and artist. One of the most popular humorists (writers of clever humor) of his time, Thurber celebrated in stories and in cartoons the comic frustrations of eccentric yet ordinary people.

James Thurber - New World Encyclopedia
7 Mar 2026 at 7:14am
Hailed as the greatest contributor to American humor writing since Mark Twain, Thurber wrote hundreds of essays, and short stories, that often featured gender battles between dominant women and little men as in his The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Catbird Seat.

James Thurber (Author of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
11 Jan 2026 at 10:49am
His career as a cartoonist began in 1930 when White found some of Thurber's drawings in a trash can and submitted them for publication. Thurber would contribute both his writings and his drawings to The New Yorker until the 1950s.

Biography: James Thurber | American Literature II - Lumen Learning
6 Mar 2026 at 1:34pm
James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 ? November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker magazine and collected in his numerous books.

James Thurber - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
23 Feb 2026 at 2:45pm
James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 ? November 2, 1961) was an American author, journalist, and cartoonist. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories. He published his stories mainly in The New Yorker magazine.



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