Author:James Thurber

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James Thurber (1894–1961)

See biography, quotes. An American humorist and cartoonist.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Books 1.2 Short stories 1.3 Other 2 Footnotes

[edit] Works

[edit] Books

• Is Sex Necessary? or, Why You Feel The Way You Do (1929) - Renewal R182672 (spoof of sexual psychology manuals, with E. B. White), 1929, 75th anniv. edition (2004) with foreword by John Updike, ISBN 0-06-073314-4
• The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities (1931) - Renewal R213366
• The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (1932) - Renewal R258752; 1950, Renewal R679756 NM: author's memoir in book
• My Life and Hard Times (1933) - Renewal R268850 ISBN 0-06-093308-9
• The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) - Renewal R305688
• Let Your Mind Alone! and Other More Or Less Inspirational Pieces, 1937
• The Last Flower (1939) - Renewal R401129; re-issued 2007 ISBN 978-1-58729-620-8
• The Male Animal (stage play), 1939 (with Elliot Nugent)
• Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, Prev. pub. serially in The New Yorker, Jan. 1939-Feb. 1940.
  • Collected 1940 ISBN 0-06-090999-4 Renewal R433931 (NM: drawings)
• My World--and Welcome To It (1942) - Renewal R475641 ISBN 0-15-662344-7
• Many Moons (1943) - Renewal R491245; 1945: Renewal R494414
• Men, Women, and Dogs (1943) - Renewal R494920
• The Great Quillow (1944) - Renewal R514593
• The Thurber Carnival (1945) - Renewal R542224 (anthology). ISBN 0-06-093287-2
• The White Deer (1945) - Renewal R537129
• The Beast in Me and Other Animals (1948) - Renewal R618418 ISBN 0-15-610850-X
• The 13 Clocks (1950) - Renewal R679757
• The Thurber Album (1952) - Renewal RE083848
• Thurber Country (1953) - Renewal RE113370
• Thurber's Dogs (1955) - Renewal RE173171
• Further Fables For Our Time (1956) - Renewal RE217265
• The Wonderful O (1957) - Renewal RE251666 (children)
• Alarms and Diversions (1957) - Renewal RE251491 (anthology)
• The World of John McNulty (1957) - Renewal RE266221
• The Years With Ross (1959) - Renewal RE326500 ISBN 0-06-095971-1
• A Thurber Carnival (1960) - Renewal R542224 (stage play)
• Lanterns and Lances (1961) - Renewal RE438502

Posthumous Collections:

• Credos and Curios (1962) - Renewal RE526775 NM: changes, additions, revisions.
• Thurber & Company, 1966 (ed. Helen W. Thurber)
• Selected Letters of James Thurber, 1981 (ed. Helen W. Thurber & Edward Weeks)
• Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself, 1989 (ed. Michael J. Rosen)
• Thurber On Crime, 1991 (ed. Robert Lopresti)
• People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber, 1994 (ed. Michael J. Rosen)
• James Thurber: Writings and Drawings, 1996, (ed. Garrison Keillor), Library of America, ISBN 978-1-88301122-2
• The Dog Department: James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties, and Talking Poodles, 2001 (ed. Michael J. Rosen)
• The Thurber Letters, 2002 (ed. Harrison Kinney, with Rosemary A. Thurber)

[edit] Short stories

See Articles

• The Newcomer^[1]

[edit] Other

• The fifth New Yorker album, on foreword R258753
• The Wizard of Oz; bk., by L. Frank Baum. introd. by James Thurber. Renewal RE385308
• My country-in-law, by Mary Mian, with an introduction by James Thurber, illustrated by Maurice Duvalet Renewal R570492
• This Petty pace, a book of drawings (1945) Renewal R546306
• How to raise a dog; in the city, in the suburbs, by KINNEY, JAMES R James R. Kinney & Ann Honeycutt, pseud. Illus.: James Thurber Renewal R383270

[edit] Footnotes

1. ↑ Charles Grayson (2005). Stories for Men. Kessinger Publishing, p.424. ISBN 141911333X. 

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