Thurber, James
Thurber, James (1894–1961),American writer and illustrator, moved to New York from Ohio in 1933 and became one of the great writers of humour for the New Yorker. Known for his irony and wit, Thurber produced the satirical ‘The Girl and the Wolf’, one of the most remarkable versions of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, in his unique collection Fables for our Time (1940). Here the girl shoots the wolf with a revolver, and the story ends with a moral: ‘Little girls are not so easy to fool nowadays as they used to be.’ Although most of Thurber's ironic fables and sketches were intended for adults, he also wrote four charming fairy‐tale books for young readers: Many Moons (1943), The Great Quillow (1944), The White Deer (1945), and The Thirteen Clocks (1950). Of these books, Many Moons, in which a fragile princess uses great inner resources to overcome...
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