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In life, James Thurber called himself "a wide-eyed son of a bitch with a glass in his hand". Here, in Burton Bernstein's indispensable biography, readers learn how the famed New Yorker humorist and columnist changed from a shy, handicapped Ohioan to the tormented man be became. The author will be featured on a PBS documentary on Thurber this spring. 27 line illustrations.

This volume in the "Life and Literature" series presents an overview of the life and career of Thurber. Long gives a concise account of Thurber's complex nature and the meaning of his writing and art, and considers his work in the light of his troubled life, his times, and his relationship with other writers such as E.B. White. He examines Thurber's surrealistic drawings and illustrations, his fiction, reminiscences, comic prose, and fables and fairy...

On this episode of Camera Three, actors perform dramatic readings about nonsense from the works of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and James Thruber. The actors include Alice Pearce, Rex Everhart, Archie Smith, Dorothy Sands, and Tommy White.