Jan 3, 2010

The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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.