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James Thurber (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

James Grover Thurber, the second of the three sons of Charles Thurber and the former Mary Agnes Fisher, was born in Columbus, Ohio, on December 8, 1894. The family moved to the Washington, D.C., area in 1902 while his father worked as a stenographer for his representative in Congress. At a temporary residence in Falls Church, Virginia, in August of that year, a rubber-tipped arrow shot by his brother William accidentally struck James in the left eye. Several days later the eye was removed, but the delay may have affected the right eye, whose sight he also...

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