Thurber, James (Vol. 11) | Introduction
Thurber, James 1894–1961
Thurber, a short story writer, cartoonist, essayist, and dramatist, is generally considered the outstanding American humorist of this century. A distinctive stylist both in his prose and his cartoons, Thurber satirized the events of middle-class life and the relations between the sexes. His portrait of the bewildered modern man beset by the world's mundane woes appeared so consistently in his work as to become the stereotypical Thurber man. (See also CLC, Vol. 5, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 73-76.)
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