James Thurber
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Arts
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Artists, Artisans, Media, Journalism, Journalists
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present
Article abstract: Thurber pioneered an urbane and sophisticated style of humor that was markedly different from the bucolic, provincial, and often self-conscious American humor of the nineteenth century and that was far more appropriate to the complex, anxiety-ridden America being thrust into world leadership in the twentieth century.
Early Life
James Grover Thurber was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. Throughout his life, he often wrote about his memories of his early Ohio years. At age seven, Thurber was shot in the left eye by an arrow while playing...
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