The Thurber Letters (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: James Thurber
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: From June 28, 1918, to August 20, 1961
- Setting: Washington, D.C.; Paris; Ohio; New York; Connecticut; and other places
- Principal Characters: James Thurber, Elliott Nugent, Minette Fritts, Eva Prout, E. B. White, Ann Honeycutt, Althea Adams Thurber, Harold Ross, Helen Wismer Thurber
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, New York, United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Blindness or blind persons, Art or artists, Marriage, 1940’s, Ohio, Paris, 1920’s, 1930’s, Washington, D.C., Letter writing, Connecticut, Wit or humor, Letters, Drawing, Animation or cartoons, Illustrators
- Locales: Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Paris, France, Washington, D.C.
James Thurber was one of the most popular humorists of the twentieth century. Many of his stories, essays, and drawings remain in print long after his death. This book, the second published volume of Thurber’s letters, is almost three times the size of Selected Letters of James Thurber (1981). The challenge of editing Thurber’s letters was “similar to trying to herd cats,” editor Harrison Kinney writes in the book’s introduction. While correcting mere typographical errors, he tried at the same time to preserve the “idiosyncratic mannerisms” that are essential to the...
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