James Thurber (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Generally considered the greatest American humorist since Mark Twain, James Grover Thurber was born on December 8, 1894, in Columbus, Ohio, the setting for many of his comic reminiscences. His father was active in local politics; his mother had a histrionic gift of comic impersonation that gave his mind “a sense of confusion that . . . never left it.” When Thurber was six, his older brother accidentally shot him with an arrow in the left eye, which was replaced with a glass one. In Columbus, Thurber attended the public schools and Ohio State University, where he wrote for the campus...
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