James Thurber
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- Author: James Thurber
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1894-1961
- Setting: Columbus, Ohio; New York City; rural Connecticut; Paris; London
- 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...
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