biography
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Thurber, James (Grover)
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| lived:
| (1894–1961)
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| biography:
| Writer and cartoonist, born in Columbus, Ohio, USA. One of America's great humorists, he wrote short stories and drew witty cartoons as a staff member of the New Yorker magazine (1927–33) and thereafter as a contributor, until his death in 1961. He portrayed the preposterousness and frustrations of modern life in such collections as The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities (1931), The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (1932), and Fables For Our Time (1940), which included his illustrations and such memorable stories as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. He also wrote children's books, including The Thirteen Clocks (1950), and co-wrote with Elliot Nugent the Broadway comedy, The Male Animal (1940). As a youngster he had lost the sight in his left eye, and in his mid-forties he eventually went totally blind, thereby writing as many of his stories while blind as when he enjoyed vision. |
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