Male : Humorist, Writer & Cartoonist. Worked for The New Yorker from 1933-1961. Blind in one eye from a childhood accident

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Columbus, Ohio

Date of Birth : 1894 Date of Death : 1961 Age : 67

Other Work : Journalist

Education : Ohio Univ

1929-1930
Is Sex Necessary ? Or : Why You Feel the Way You Do (1929 Harper)
(1930 Heinemann) - with E B White

1931-1940
The Owl in the Attic & Other Perplexities (1931 Harper) (1931 Harper UK)
The Seal in the Bedroom & Other Predicaments (1932 Harper) (1932 Harper UK)
My Life and Hard Times (1933 Harper) (1933 Harper UK - autobiography
[Filmed in 1941 as "Rise and Shine"]
The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935 Harper) (1935 Heinemann)
Let Your Mind Alone! & other More or Less Inspirational Pieces (1937 Harper) (1937 H Hamilton)
Cream of Thurber (1939 HH)
The Last Flower : A Parable in Pictures (1939 Harper) (1939 HH)
Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940 Harper) (1940 HH)
The Male Animal (1940 Random House) (1940 HH) - play, with Elliott Nugent
[Filmed in 1942, and in 1952 as "She's Working Her Way Through College"]

1941-1950
My World - and Welcome To It (1942 Harcourt Brace) (1942 HH)
[Contains the story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", which was filmed in 1947]
Men, Women & Dogs (1943 NY) (1944 "Thurber's Men, Women & Dogs" HH)
Many Moons (1943 Harcourt) (1945 Hamish Hamilton) - Louis Slobodkin
The Great Quillow (1944 Harcourt) - Doris Lee
The White Deer (1945 Harcourt) (1946 Hamish Hamilton) - author & Don Freeman
The Thurber Carnival (1945 Harper) (1945 HH)
The Beast in Me and Other Animals (1948 Harcourt Brace) (1949 HH)
The 13 Clocks (1950 Simon & Schuster) (1951 Hamish Hamilton) - Marc Simont

1951-1960
The Thurber Album (1952 Simon & Schuster) (1952 HH)
Thurber Country (1953 S & S) (1953 HH)
Thurber on Humour (1953 World) - pamphlet
Thurber's Dogs (1955 S & S) (1955 Hamish Hamilton 12/6)
A Thurber Garland (1955 HH) - anthology
The Wonderful O (1955 S & S) (1955 Hamish Hamilton) - Marc Simont
Further Fables for Our Time (1956 Simon & Schuster) (1956 Hamish Hamilton 13/6)
Alarms and Diversions (1957 Harper) (1957 HH)
The Years with Ross (1959 Little Brown) (1959 HH)

After 1961
Lanterns and Lances (1961 Harper) (1961 HH)
A Thurber Carnival (1962 French, US) - play
Credos and Curios (1962 Harper) (1962 HH)
Vintage Thurber (1963 HH) - anthology in 2 vols
Thurber and Company (1967 Harper) (1967 HH)
Better to Have Loafed and Lost : the Best of James Thurber (2002 Ebury Press £12.99)

READING
Robert E Morsberger : James Thurber (1964 Twayne, US)
Edwin T Bowden : James Thurber - A Bibliography (1968 Ohio State Univ Press)
Stephen A Black : James Thurber - His Masquerades (1970 Mouton, Holland)
(Ed) Charles S Holmes : The Clocks of Columbus - The Literary Career of James Thurber
(1973 Secker & Warburg £4) (1974 Prentice-Hall)
Burton Bernstein : Thurber - A Biography (1975 Dodd Mead)
(Ed) Helen Thurber & Edward Weeks : Selected Letters of James Thurber (1981 Little Brown)
Catherine McGehee Kenney : Thurber's Anatomy of Confusion (1984 Archon, US)
(Ed) Thomas fensch : Conversations with James Thurber (1989 Jackson & London, US)
(Ed) Michael J Rosen : Collecting Himself - James Thurber on Writing, Writers, Humor & Himself
(1989 Harper)
(Ed) Robert Lopresti : Thurber on crime (1991 Mysterious Press, US)
Neil A Grauer : Remember Laughter (1995 Nebraska UP)
(Ed) Harrison Kinney, with Rosemary A Thurber : The Thurber Letters - The Wit, Wisdom
and Surprising Life of James Thurber (2003 Simon & Schuster £25)