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Charles S. Holmes is considered one of the preeminent scholars of Thurber’s literary career. Holmes’s 1972 biography of James Thurber, The Clocks of Columbus, is a detailed examination of both the writer and his works. It is accepted by many as the definitive biography.

Among contemporary humor essayists, Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris are among the most respected. Vowell’s most recent collection is The Partly Cloudy Patriot, published by Simon & Schuster in 2002. Sedaris’s masterpiece is ‘‘The Santaland Diaries,’’ a Thurberesque account of his...

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