James Thurber

James Thurber

Osnovni podaci
Rođenje	8. decembar 1894. (1894-12-08) Columbus
Smrt	2. novembar 1961. (starost 66)
Zanimanje	humorist
Nacionalnost	Amerikanac
Djelo
Period	1929 do 1961
Žanrovi	novele, karikature, eseji
Teme	humor, jetzik
Znamenita djela	My Life and Hard Times, My World - And Welcome to It
Uticaj na Bob Newhart, Charles Bukowski

James Grover Thurber (8.12., 1894–2.11. 1961.) bio je američki humorist i karikaturist. Thurber je bio najpoznatiji po svom radu - i kao karikaturist i kao pisac novela - za časopis The New Yorker.

Knjige [uredi - уреди]

Is Sex Necessary? or, Why You Feel The Way You Do (parodija na priučnike seksualne psihologije, koator E. B. White), 1929, izdanje na 75. obljetnicu (2004) s predgovorkm Johna Updikea, ISBN 0-06-073314-4
The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities, 1931
The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments, 1932
My Life and Hard Times, 1933 ISBN 0-06-093308-9
The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, 1935
Let Your Mind Alone! and Other More Or Less Inspirational Pieces, 1937
The Last Flower, 1939
The Male Animal (kazališni komad), 1939 (ko-autor Elliot Nugent)
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, 1940 ISBN 0-06-090999-4
My World--and Welcome To It, 1942 ISBN 0-15-662344-7
Many Moons, (dječja) 1943
Men, Women, and Dogs, 1943
The Great Quillow, (dječja) 1944
The Thurber Carnival (antologija), 1945, ISBN 0-06-093287-2
The White Deer, (dječja) 1945
The Beast in Me and Other Animals, 1948 ISBN 0-15-610850-X
The 13 Clocks, (dječja) 1950
The Thurber Album, 1952
Thurber Country, 1953
Thurber's Dogs, 1955
Further Fables For Our Time, 1956
The Wonderful O, (dječja) 1957
Alarms and Diversions (antologija), 1957
The Years With Ross, 1959 ISBN 0-06-095971-1
A Thurber Carnival (kazališni komad), 1960
Lanterns and Lances, 1961

Posthumne zbirke:

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