Thurber, James [Grover]
Thurber, James [Grover]( 1894–1961),Ohio-born humorous writer and artist, in 1927 began his lifelong association with The New Yorker, in which most of his work first appeared. Of the journal and its editor, Harold Ross, he wrote a personal history, The Years with Ross (1959). His essays, sketches, fables, stories, parables, and reminiscences, illustrated by his distinctive and fluid drawings, include Is Sex Necessary? (1929), written with E.B. White, satirizing pseudo-scientific sex manuals; The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities (1931); The Seal in the Bedroom & Other Predicaments (1932); My Life and Hard Times (1933), amusing recollections; The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935); Let Your Mind Alone! (1937), satirizing inspirational books and popularizations of psychology; The Last Flower (1939), an ironic parable of modern war; Fables for Our Time, and...
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