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James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright.He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker and collected in his numerous books.
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated is a 1940 book by James Thurber. Thurber updates some old fables and creates some new ones of his own. Notably there is 'The Bear Who Could Take It Or Leave It Alone' about a bear who lapses into alcoholism before sobering up and going too far that way.
The son of Charles and Mary Thurber, James Grover Thurber spent his childhood, college days and young adulthood in Columbus. From 1913 through 1918, he was a student at The Ohio State University ...
The fable has since been reprinted in The Thurber Carnival (Harper and Brothers, 1945), James Thurber: Writings and Drawings (The Library of America, 1996, ISBN 1-883011-22-1), The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, and other publications. The story is often used in classes that teach English as a second language.
Many Moons is an American children's picture book written by James Thurber and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. It was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1943 and won the Caldecott Medal in 1944. [1] [2] The book centers around a young girl, Princess Lenore, who becomes ill, and only one thing will make her better: the Moon. The book was ...
The Wonderful O is the last of James Thurber’s five short-book fairy tales for children. Published in 1957 by Hamish Hamilton/Simon Schuster, it followed Many Moons (1943), The Great Quillow (1944), The White Deer (1945) and The 13 Clocks (1950).
Haʻamonga ʻa Maui ("The Burden of Maui") is a stone trilithon located in Tonga, on the eastern part of the island of Tongatapu, in the village of Niutōua, in Heketā. It was built in the 13th century by King Tuʻitātui in honor of his two sons. [1] The monument is sometimes called the "Stonehenge of the Pacific". [1]
First edition (publ. Harper & Brothers) My Life and Hard Times is the 1933 autobiography of James Thurber. [1] It is considered his greatest work as he relates in bewildered deadpan prose the eccentric goings on of his family and the town beyond (Columbus, Ohio).