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Thurber, James Grover
Thurber, James Grover ( 1894 – 1961 ),American humorist, many of whose essays, stories, and sketches appeared in the New Yorker , including one of his best-known short stories, ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ ( 1932 ), which describes the colourful escapist fantasies of a docile husband.
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