Selected Letters of James Thurber
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1981).
Price: $30.00
Hardcover. First trade edition. Edited by Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks. Near fine with remainder mark on bottom page edges in near fine dustwrapper with spine faded and light wear to the spine ends.
Item #105350
ISBN: 0316844446
James Thurber
birth name: James Thurber
born: 12/8/1894
died: 11/2/1961
Biography
American writer and cartoonist noted for his vison of the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is befuddled and beset by a world that he neither created nor understands. Thurber's best-known portrait of this character is probably Walter Mitty. Thurber's stock characters-the snarling wife, her timid, hapless husband, and a roster of serene, silently observing animals-have become classics of urban mythology. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore