Alarms and Diversions
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1957).
Price: $75.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very near fine with a tiny rubbed tear. Page tipped-in presenting the book as a gift of the New Yorker magazine. An especially bright copy.
Item #278569
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