James Thurber (1894–1961)
Autor/a de The Thurber Carnival
Sobre l'autor
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Thurber was blinded in one eye in a childhood accident. He attended Ohio State University but left without earning a degree. In 1925 he moved to New York City, where he joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1927 at the urging of his friend E. B. White. For the rest of his mostra'n més lifetime, Thurber contributed to the magazine his highly individual pieces and those strange, wry, and disturbing pen-and-ink drawings of "huge, resigned dogs, the determined and sometimes frightening women, the globular men who try so hard to think so unsuccessfully." The period from 1925, when the New Yorker was founded, until the death of its creator-editor, Harold Ross, in 1951, was described by Thurber in delicious and absorbing detail in The Years with Ross (1959). Of his two great talents, Thurber preferred to think of himself primarily as a writer, illustrating his own books. He published "fables" in the style of Aesop (see Vol. 2) and La Fontaine (see Vol. 2)---usually with a "barbed tip of contemporary significance"---children's books, several plays (two Broadway hits, one successful musical revue), and endless satires and parodies in short stories or full-length works. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," included in My World---and Welcome to It (1942), is probably his best-known story and continues to be frequently anthologized. T. S. Eliot described Thurber's work as "a form of humor which is also a way of saying something serious." (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de James Thurber
Thurber's men, women, and dogs, a book of drawings with a preface by Dorothy Parker (1943) 190 exemplars
Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor, and Himself (1989) — Autor — 125 exemplars
People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration Of Drawings And Writings (1994) 58 exemplars
Thurber and Company: A New Collection of Drawings of Male and Female Animals Including the Human (1966) 49 exemplars
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 2 (1963) 40 exemplars
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber:Two Volume Set (1974) 39 exemplars
Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2005) 38 exemplars
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 1 (1963) 35 exemplars
The James Thurber Audio Collection: Fables and Selected Stories by James Thurber (2011) 10 exemplars
Is Sex Necessary?, etc 3 exemplars
The Wood Duck [short story] 3 exemplars
Il più grand'uomo del mondo: racconti 3 exemplars
Love Is A Funny Business (Quick Reader 126) 3 exemplars
Interview with a Lemming [short story] 3 exemplars
The Night the Bed Fell 3 exemplars
The Little Girl and the Wolf {short story} 3 exemplars
The Departure of Emma Inch {short story} 2 exemplars
The Scotty Who Knew Too Much {short story' 2 exemplars
A Thurber garland 2 exemplars
A Thurber Carnival 2 exemplars
Doc Marlowe [short story] 2 exemplars
My Life and Hard Times and Other Conversations 2 exemplars
The years with Ross 2 exemplars
You Could Look It Up 2 exemplars
My World---And Welcome to It 1 exemplars
Secret Life Of Walter Mitty And Other Play 1 exemplars
Thurber Carnival, Thw 1 exemplars
13 האורלוגין 1 exemplars
Further Fables of Our Times 1 exemplars
Rare Antique GENIUS OF JAMES THURBER FOLIO SOCIETY Stories FICTION Humor COMICAL Fiction 1 exemplars
Trzynaście zegarów 1 exemplars
A Thurber Carnival (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 16] 1 exemplars
De tretten ure 1 exemplars
Memorable Quotations from James Thurber 1 exemplars
The Rgurber Album 1 exemplars
A Full Confession 1 exemplars
My Life and Hard Times, etc 1 exemplars
O cartaz de Mr. Martin 1 exemplars
Favole per il nostro tempo 1 exemplars
A Couple of Hamburgers {short story} 1 exemplars
The Breaking Up of the Winships {short story} 1 exemplars
The Shrike and the Chipmunks {short story} 1 exemplars
A Ride with Olympy {essay} 1 exemplars
The Hound and the Bug 1 exemplars
The Macbeth Murder Mystery 1 exemplars
The Secret Life of James Thurber {essay} 1 exemplars
Memoirs of a Drudge {essay} 1 exemplars
The Lady on 142 {short story} 1 exemplars
The Foolhardy Mouse and the Curious Cat 1 exemplars
La notte degli spiriti e altre storie 1 exemplars
James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times 1 exemplars
Sælen der blev berømt og andre historier 1 exemplars
[No title] 1 exemplars
The Lady on the Bookcase 1 exemplars
The Great Quillow 1 exemplars
Zehn goldene Regeln für das Zusammenleben mit 100 warnenden Beispielen / Der Hund, der die Leute biß. Und andere… (1996) 1 exemplars
Thurbers Men Women & Dogs a Book of Drawings 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 915 exemplars
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Col·laborador — 706 exemplars
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Col·laborador — 562 exemplars
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Col·laborador — 244 exemplars
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Col·laborador — 102 exemplars
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Col·laborador — 96 exemplars
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Col·laborador — 81 exemplars
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories (2002) — Col·laborador — 77 exemplars
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Col·laborador — 66 exemplars
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Col·laborador — 55 exemplars
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Col·laborador — 42 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
Zoo 2000: Twelve Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy Beasts (1973) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1: A Reader of American Short Stories (2001) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
The Defective Detective: Mystery Parodies by the Great Humorists (1992) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Alexanders langes Leben, Stalins früher Tod und andere abwegige Geschichten. Erzählungen und Berichte aus… (1999) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
American Short Stories, Vol.5, The Twentieth Century (1957) — Autor, algunes edicions — 11 exemplars
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Reading in English for Students of English as a Second Language (1961) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Rex Lardner Selects the Best of Sports Fiction — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 1 (1953) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Eleven American Stories — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Configurations: American Short Stories for the EFL Classroom, Advanced Level (1984) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Al pie del acantilado — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Behind the Wheel: Stories of Cars on Road and Track — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Thurber, James
- Nom oficial
- Thurber, James Grover
- Data de naixement
- 1894-12-08
- Data de defunció
- 1961-11-02
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de la mort
- complications from pneumonia
- Llocs de residència
- Washington, D.C., USA
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
Columbus, Ohio, USA - Educació
- Ohio State University
- Professions
- cartoonist
author
playwright
reporter
code clerk - Organitzacions
- The New Yorker
U.S. Department of State - Premis i honors
- Caldecott Medal (1944)
Membres
Converses
Found: Kid’s book about a haunted castle a Name that Book (novembre 2023)
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Favourite Books (1)
Best Beach Reads (1)
Read These Too (1)
Ambleside Books (1)
Folio Society (1)
1950s (1)
Short and Sweet (1)
Children's Humor (1)
Read This Next (1)
1930s (2)
1940s (2)
Audio Books (1)
Princess Tales (1)
Five Star Novels (1)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 149
- També de
- 152
- Membres
- 16,454
- Popularitat
- #1,379
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 335
- ISBN
- 317
- Llengües
- 13
- Preferit
- 81