The James Thurber Page

( 1894-1961 )

Major Works
The majority of Thurber's works, drawings and prose pieces, were originally published in The New Yorker and then later collected into a series of books. The handiest one-volume collection is that selected by Garrison Keillor for the Library of America: Writings and Drawings, 1996.
Is Sex Necessary ? ( 1929 ).
The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities ( 1931 ).
The Seal in the Bedroom ( 1932 ).
My Life and Hard Times ( 1933 ).
The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze ( 1935 ).
Let Your Mind Alone ( 1937 ).
The Last Flower ( 1939 ).
The Cream of Thurber ( 1939 ).
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated ( 1940 ).
My World-And Welcome To It ( 1942 ).
Men, Women and Dogs ( 1943 ).
The Thurber Carnival ( 1945 ). Includes " The Catbird Seat."
The Beast in Me and Other Animals ( 1948 ).
The 13 Clocks ( 1950 ).
The Thurber Album ( 1952 ).
The Thurber Country ( 1953 ).
Thurber's Dogs ( 1955 ).
Further Fables for Our Time ( 1956 ).
Alarms and Diversions ( 1957 ).
The Years with Ross ( 1958 ). Harold Ross was editor of The New Yorker with whom Thurber was associated until the former's death in 1951.
Selected Letters. Edited by Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks. Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1981,
Credos and Curios. Foreword by Helen Thurber. Harper, 1983.
Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself. Edited by Michael J. Rosen. Harper and Row, 1989.

About Thurber
Burton Bernstein, Thurber: A Biography. Dodd, Mead, 1975.
Neil A. Grauer, Remembering Laughter: A Life of James Thurber. Nebraska, 1994.
Charles S. Holmes, The Clocks of Columbus: The Literary Career of James Thurber. Atheneum, 1972.
Harrison Kinney, James Thurber: His Life and Times. Henry Holt, 1995.
Thurber's World ( and Welcome To it )
Pathfinder: James Grover Thurber ( 1894-1961 ). Large page with links.

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