James Thurber | James Thurber

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Author: Harrison Kinney
First Published: 1995
Type of Work: Literary biography
Time of Work: 1894-1961
Setting: Columbus, Ohio; New York City; rural Connecticut; Paris; London
Principal Characters: James Thurber, Helen Thurber, Harold Ross, E. B. White
Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
Subjects: Authors or writers, Blindness or blind persons, Literature, Marriage, Writing, Creative process, Comedy, Humorists, Animation or cartoons
Locales: New York, NY, Connecticut, Paris, France, London, England, Columbus, OH

Harrison Kinney’s critical biography of James Thurber is also a literary history of one of the most important chapters in twentieth century American literary history: the founding and early decades of The New Yorker magazine, when that journal and its writers were at the center of an exhilarating New York literary life. Thurber’s story and the history of the magazine are inextricably tied together in their best decades of the 1930’s and 1940’s.

Thurber was to become the most important American humorist of the twentieth century—as Mark Twain had been for the...

James Thurber | James Thurber

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