About James Thurber
The shy Midwesterner James Thurber became a famed cartoonist and humor writer almost, it seems, by accident: Thurber in person was often depressed and self-conscious, darker strains that emerge fitfully in his sly, absurdist work. Garrison Keillor, a sunnier brand of Midwestern humorist, has assembled four longer works with many of Thurber's drawings and short pieces for the Library of America edition of Thurber's selected works. Many of these cartoons and writings are now classics, and Thurber's edgy, modernist humor--not to mention his usually bewildered protagonists--has influenced many of the best cartoonists today.
Novels
Oh My, Omar (1921)
Middle - Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
The Last Flower (1939)
The Male Animal - a New Comedy (1941) (with Elliott Nugent)
The White Deer (1945)
The 13 Clocks (1950)
The Wonderful O (1955)
Middle - Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
The Last Flower (1939)
The Male Animal - a New Comedy (1941) (with Elliott Nugent)
The White Deer (1945)
The 13 Clocks (1950)
The Wonderful O (1955)
Collections
The Owl In the Attic: And Other Perplexities (1931)
Fables for Our Time: And Famous Poems Illustrated (poems) (1940)
Men, Women and Dogs (1940)
Decade 1931 - 1941: A Commemorative Anthology (1941)
My World - and Welcome to It (1942)
Many Moons (1942)
The Thurber Carnival (1942)
The Great Quillow (1944)
Thurber Country: The Classics Collection about Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species (1946)
The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures (1950)
The Thurber Album (1952)
Thurber Dogs (1955)
Further Fables for Our Time (1956)
Alarms and Diversions (1957)
Lanterns and Lances (1961)
Credos and Curios (1962)
Vintage Thurber: A Collection, in Two Volumes, of the Best Writings And Drawings of James Thurber with an Introduction By Helen Thurber (1963)
Thurber and Company (1966)
92 Stories (1987)
Collecting Himself (1988)
People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber (1994)
Better to Have Loafed and Lost: The Best of James Thurber (2002)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: And Other Tales (2005)
Fables for Our Time: And Famous Poems Illustrated (poems) (1940)
Men, Women and Dogs (1940)
Decade 1931 - 1941: A Commemorative Anthology (1941)
My World - and Welcome to It (1942)
Many Moons (1942)
The Thurber Carnival (1942)
The Great Quillow (1944)
Thurber Country: The Classics Collection about Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species (1946)
The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures (1950)
The Thurber Album (1952)
Thurber Dogs (1955)
Further Fables for Our Time (1956)
Alarms and Diversions (1957)
Lanterns and Lances (1961)
Credos and Curios (1962)
Vintage Thurber: A Collection, in Two Volumes, of the Best Writings And Drawings of James Thurber with an Introduction By Helen Thurber (1963)
Thurber and Company (1966)
92 Stories (1987)
Collecting Himself (1988)
People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber (1994)
Better to Have Loafed and Lost: The Best of James Thurber (2002)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: And Other Tales (2005)
Non fiction
Let Your Mind Alone! (1937)
My Life and Hard Times (1948)
On Poetry and Poets (1956)
The Years with Ross (1959)
Is Sex Necessary?: or Why You Feel The Way You Do (1960) (with E B White)
The Executives in a Word Book (1963) (with Margaret S Ernst)
Thurber: A Biography (1975) (with Burton Bernstein)
Selected Letters of James Thurber (1981)
Thurber on Crime (1991)
My Life and Hard Times (1948)
On Poetry and Poets (1956)
The Years with Ross (1959)
Is Sex Necessary?: or Why You Feel The Way You Do (1960) (with E B White)
The Executives in a Word Book (1963) (with Margaret S Ernst)
Thurber: A Biography (1975) (with Burton Bernstein)
Selected Letters of James Thurber (1981)
Thurber on Crime (1991)
Anthologies containing stories by James Thurber
Reading I've Liked (1946)
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998)
Bangs and Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World (1999)
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998)
Bangs and Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World (1999)
Short stories
| Interview with a Lemming (1941) | |||
| The White Rabbit Caper (1949) | |||
| My Life and Hard Times [short story] |
Books about James Thurber
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