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James Thurber (1894-1961) After spending his boyhood and university days in Columbus, Ohio, Thurber worked as a reporter, serving for a time as a foreign correspondent in France. He was one of the young, talented writers— E. B. White was another—recruited when Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, a period recounted in Thurber's best-selling My Years with Ross (1959).
Thurber subsequently devoted full time to writing and illustra¬ting some tvo dozen books of stories and essays. He collaborated with Elliott Nugent in writing a play, The Male Animal, which ran successfully in New York in 1940. Several of Thurber's stories and sketches were also presented on Broadway in Three by Thurber (1955) and A Thurber Carnival (1960). A number of his stories, including "The Unicorn in the Garden" and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (with Walter played by Danny Kaye) have been produced as movies.
A representative selection of Thurber's short stories, fables, essays and cartoons is available in The Thurber Carnival (1945). His wide-eyed dogs, predatory women, and timid men have made him one of America's best-loved humorists.
