Alarms & Diversions
New York: Harper, 1957.
Price: $22.00
Hardcover. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper spine faded, couple of small chips along top edge of front panel. Former owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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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