Bibliographies

Bernstein, Burton. Thurber: A Biography. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1975: 517-20.

List of primary and secondary critical sources for the definitive Thurber biography.

Bowden, Edwin T. James Thurber: A Bibliography. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969.

A comprehensive bibliographic source of Thurber's works and criticism.

Biographies

Bernstein, Burton. Thurber: A Biography. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1975.

A definitive work on Thurber's life, unflattering but disinterested.

Grauer, Neil. Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

A sympathetic view of Thurber's life.

Criticism

Appelbaum, Judith. "Paperback Talk." New York Times Book Review (12 December 1982): 34.

Positive notice of the publication of Selected Letters.

Baldwin, Alice. "James Thurber's Compounds." Language and Style III, No. 2 (Summer 1970): 185-96.

A discussion of Thurber's innovative and idiosyncratic word compounding.

Dunning, Jennifer. "Paperback Talk." New York Times Book Review (30 October 1977): 57.

Brief review of the reissue of Thurber's children's book, The Thirteen Clocks.

Review of Credos and Curios. New York Times Book Review (13 March 1983): 28.

Positive note on the reissue of the 1962 collection.

Review of Thurber's Dogs. New York Times Book Review (13 May 1984): 38.

Brief, appreciative notice of the reissue of Thurber's 1955 volume.

Stafford, Jean. Review of The Great Quillow. New Yorker 51 (1 December 1975): 178.

A very brief review of the reissue of one of Thurber's lesser known children's stories.