James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker and collected in his numerous books.

2024年12月4日 · James Thurber was an American writer and cartoonist, whose well-known and highly acclaimed writings and drawings picture the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is befuddled and beset by a world that he neither created nor understands.

James Thurber was a humorist, cartoonist, author, playwright, and journalist known for his quirky and relatable characters and themes.

James Thurber was a humorist, cartoonist, author, playwright, and journalist known for his quirky and relatable characters and themes.

Thurber House is a non-profit literary arts center and museum located in the home of humor writer and cartoonist James Thurber. Programs include the Thurber Prize for American Humor, writer residencies, author readings, writing classes for children and adults, and a …

Internationally recognized as one of the preeminent humorists in American history, Columbus’s native son, James Thurber, created an unparalleled array of some three dozen books: short stories, autobiography, plays, fables, biography, books for young readers, and humor: parodies, spoofs, farces, self-deprecating narratives, hilarious caricatures,...

2024年7月30日 · Step inside Thurber House, the restored 1873 Victorian home in Columbus, Ohio, where humorist James Thurber lived from 1913-1917. The following photos are from Page Count‘s recent visit to Thurber House, where Literature Department Manager Don Boozer and Ohio Center for the Book Fellow Laura Maylene Walter toured the home to learn about …

Thurber invented the one-liner gag cartoon as we know it today. (It used to be more leaden and dialogic.) His simple line drawings—in contrast with painterly images more common to the times—and waggish humor also made way for the eerie and fanciful later work of William Steig and ultimately for the refinement of Saul Steinberg’s sharp wit.

James Thurber published some two dozen books of stories, essays, and cartoons during his lifetime, but in the years since his death in 1961, he’s been known mostly as the author of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a slender tale that’s only six pages long. Millions of people know the story—or think they know it—even if they’ve never read it.

James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker and collected in his numerous books.