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Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio. He joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1927 and continued to contribute to the magazine through the 1950s.

Due to a childhood injury, Thurber suffered from very poor eyesight and his eyes grew weaker as he grew older. He drew his cartoons on very large sheets of paper using a thick black crayon, giving them an eerie, wobbly feel that seems to mirror Thurber's idiosyncratic view on life. Many of his short stories are humorous fictional memoirs from his life, but he also wrote darker material.

"The Dog Who Bit People" and "The Night the Bed Fell on My Father" are among his best short stories; they can be found in My Life and Hard Times. Also notable, and often anthologized, are "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", "The Greatest Man in the World" and "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomatox", which can be found in The Thurber Carnival.

A network television show based on Thurber's writings and life, entitled My World and Welcome to It was broadcast 1969For other uses, see Number 1969. For the movie, see 1969 (movie). Events January January 1 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World January 5 The Derry Riots leave over 100 people i to 1970Events January events January 1 Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January.

Thurber died at age 66 in New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York,.

Biographies of Thurber include Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber by Neil A. Grauer, and James Thurber: His Life and Times by Harrison Kinney.

1 Quotations

• "Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
• "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
• "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
• "One martiniThe martini is the classic cocktail. Mencken once called the Martini, 'the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet. A modern martini is made with two and one half ounces of gin and a half ounce of dry vermouth, stirred with crushed ice and then s is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."
• "Don't get it right; get it written."

2 Books

• Fables for Our Times
• The Last Flower
• Is Sex Necessary? (with E. B. WhiteElwyn Brooks White ( July 11, 1899 October 1, 1985) was an American essayist, author, and noted prose stylist. He is most famous today for a writers' style guide, The Elements of Style and for three children's books generally considered to be classics of)
• Let Your Mind Alone!
• My World and Welcome To It
• My Life and Hard Times
• Wonderful O
• Many Moons
• The 13 Clocks
• The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities
• The Seal in the Bedroom
• Men, Women, and Dogs
• The Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeeze
• Thurber Country
• The Thurber Carnival (selected works)
• (others)

3 External links

• James Thurber quotations at WikiquoteWikiquote is a sister project of Wikipedia, using the same MediaWiki software. It is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the goal of the project is to p
• Thurber's World (and Welcome To it)
• James Thurber Web Collection - includes online versions of some of his works
• PATHFINDER: JAMES GROVER THURBER - collects many Thurber links

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