James thurber biography books
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Internationally recognized as one of the preeminent humorists in American history, Columbus’s native son, James Thurber, created an unparalleled array of some three dozen books: short stories, autobiography, plays, fables, biography, books for young readers, and humor: parodies, spoofs, farces, self-deprecating narratives, hilarious caricatures, exaggerated anecdotes, mock-journalism—the face and force of humor has known no greater master and innovator.
When you add Thurber’s comedic gifts as a visual art, his canon is without parallel.
His drawings not only changed the very nature of the cartoon, but also the very possibility for the unstudied, spontaneous line in fine art.
James thurber biography books
James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894 and died November 2, 1961, at age 67. His childhood included two life-long influences: his mother’s uncanny sense of dramatic humor, and an eye injury from an arrow sustained during a game of William Tell.
“Sympathetic ophthalmia” eventually overt