Article: Thurber fervor

Article: Thurber, James
U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ... ... playing with his older brother, Thurber was permanently blinded in ... his eyesight would plague Thurber for much of his life. After ... reelection campaign, the Thurbers were forced to move back to Ohio. Thurber attended the local public ...

Article: Thurber's Best Friends
The Washington Post;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...THE DOG DEPARTMENT James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties and Talking Poodles By James Thurber Edited by Michael J. Rosen HarperCollins. 256 pp. $26Nearly half a century ago James Thurber published a collection of his writings and drawings ...

Article: Thurber's world, and subtle genius, made even larger in ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  May 20, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... nation. One of the works cited was ``The Thurber Carnival,'' a compilation of one extraordinary ... best'' writings and drawings. James Thurber is one of the greatest of all American ... and inimitable cartoon style. ``The Thurber Carnival'' brought together gems from ...

Article: Thurber revealed: Prized drawings, previously private, to ...
Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH);  May 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... friend Joel Sayre. Rosemary Thurber, who has seen only a few of ... much more graceful than many Thurber drawings." She wasn't taken ... old wrote by e-mail. "We Thurbers are anti-war people through ... James Tootle, one of several Thurber experts in central Ohio, viewed ...

Article: Thurber admirer gets mention in book.(Metropolitan Times)
The Washington Times;  February 7, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... a thick book of 1,238 pages on James Thurber, the humorist. I was desperate to get ... relief, despite its size, in "James Thurber, His Life and Times." It is by Harrrison ... well written and packed with so much Thurber material that I don't see how another ...

Article: Thurber and lightning; Babson skier a striking success on ...
The Boston Herald;  December 27, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... said the 21-year-old Thurber, who attended the renown Stratton ... going to Turin." At Babson, Thurber has found a nice balance between ... down to time managment," Thurber said. "It's one of the ... someplace to ski. We leave Friday night and come back on Sunday. For ...

Article: James Thurber: His Life and Times.
The Nation;  January 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... classic story "University Days," James Thurber as hapless botany student spends a semester ... his apoplectic professor makes clear, Thurber has done a remarkably accurate picture ... Harrison Kinney's biography, James Thurber: His Life and Times. Kinney wrote this ...