James Thurber (1894–1961)
Autor(a) de The Thurber Carnival
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Obras de James Thurber
Thurber's men, women, and dogs, a book of drawings with a preface by Dorothy Parker (1943) 190 cópias
Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor, and Himself (1989) — Autor — 125 cópias
People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration Of Drawings And Writings (1994) 58 cópias
Thurber and Company: A New Collection of Drawings of Male and Female Animals Including the Human (1966) 49 cópias
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 2 (1963) 40 cópias
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber:Two Volume Set (1974) 39 cópias
Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2005) 38 cópias
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 1 (1963) 35 cópias
Is Sex Necessary?, etc 3 cópias
The Wood Duck [short story] 3 cópias
The Night the Bed Fell 3 cópias
A Thurber garland 2 cópias
A Thurber Carnival 2 cópias
Doc Marlowe [short story] 2 cópias
The years with Ross 2 cópias
You Could Look It Up 2 cópias
My World---And Welcome to It 1 exemplar(es)
Secret Life Of Walter Mitty And Other Play 1 exemplar(es)
Thurber Carnival, Thw 1 exemplar(es)
The Thurber Carnival. Written and illustrated by James Thurber. (Unabridged edition.) 1 exemplar(es)
13 האורלוגין 1 exemplar(es)
Further Fables of Our Times 1 exemplar(es)
Rare Antique GENIUS OF JAMES THURBER FOLIO SOCIETY Stories FICTION Humor COMICAL Fiction 1 exemplar(es)
Trzynaście zegarów 1 exemplar(es)
ALARMS AND DIVERSIONS. THE THURBER CARNIVAL. SELECTIONS FROM JAMES THURBER'S WRITINGS & DRAWINGS OVER 30 YEARS 1 exemplar(es)
A Thurber Carnival (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 16] 1 exemplar(es)
De tretten ure 1 exemplar(es)
Memorable Quotations from James Thurber 1 exemplar(es)
The Rgurber Album 1 exemplar(es)
A Full Confession 1 exemplar(es)
My Life and Hard Times, etc 1 exemplar(es)
O cartaz de Mr. Martin 1 exemplar(es)
Favole per il nostro tempo 1 exemplar(es)
A Couple of Hamburgers {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
The Breaking Up of the Winships {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
The Shrike and the Chipmunks {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
A Ride with Olympy {essay} 1 exemplar(es)
The Hound and the Bug 1 exemplar(es)
The Macbeth Murder Mystery 1 exemplar(es)
So spricht der Hund eine Sammlung von Hunden ihres Herrn, geschriebener wie gezeichneter, wirklicher wie erdichteter,… 1 exemplar(es)
The Secret Life of James Thurber {essay} 1 exemplar(es)
Memoirs of a Drudge {essay} 1 exemplar(es)
Die letzte Blume eine Parabel und 27 Fabeln für unsere Zeit 1 exemplar(es)
The Lady on 142 {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
The Foolhardy Mouse and the Curious Cat 1 exemplar(es)
La notte degli spiriti e altre storie 1 exemplar(es)
James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times 1 exemplar(es)
Sælen der blev berømt og andre historier 1 exemplar(es)
[No title] 1 exemplar(es)
The Lady on the Bookcase 1 exemplar(es)
The Great Quillow 1 exemplar(es)
Zehn goldene Regeln für das Zusammenleben mit 100 warnenden Beispielen / Der Hund, der die Leute biß. Und andere… (1996) 1 exemplar(es)
Thurbers Men Women & Dogs a Book of Drawings 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 915 cópias
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Contribuinte — 706 cópias
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Contribuinte — 562 cópias
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contribuinte — 244 cópias
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuinte — 131 cópias
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Contribuinte — 102 cópias
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Contribuinte — 96 cópias
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuinte — 81 cópias
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories (2002) — Contribuinte — 77 cópias
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Contribuinte — 66 cópias
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Contribuinte — 55 cópias
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Contribuinte — 30 cópias
Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1: A Reader of American Short Stories (2001) — Contribuinte — 19 cópias
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Contribuinte — 12 cópias
Alexanders langes Leben, Stalins früher Tod und andere abwegige Geschichten. Erzählungen und Berichte aus… (1999) — Contribuinte — 12 cópias
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Rex Lardner Selects the Best of Sports Fiction — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Eleven American Stories — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Configurations: American Short Stories for the EFL Classroom, Advanced Level (1984) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Al pie del acantilado — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Behind the Wheel: Stories of Cars on Road and Track — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Hånden i sandet og andre virkelige kriminalsager skildret af berømte kriminalforfattere (1974) 1 exemplar(es)
Baseball Tales: How I Got My Nickname / You Could Look It Up / The Rollicking God (1993) 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Thurber, James
- Nome de batismo
- Thurber, James Grover
- Data de nascimento
- 1894-12-08
- Data de falecimento
- 1961-11-02
- Local de enterro
- Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- complications from pneumonia
- Locais de residência
- Washington, D.C., USA
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
Columbus, Ohio, USA - Educação
- Ohio State University
- Ocupação
- cartoonist
author
playwright
reporter
code clerk - Organizações
- The New Yorker
U.S. Department of State - Premiações
- Caldecott Medal (1944)
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