Description

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"Vintage Thurber. . . small masterpieces of contemporary comment." —Chicago Tribune

"As funny, surprising, elegant, and subtly provocative as one would expect from that superb writer and draftsman." —Atlantic Monthly

This delightful volume of previously uncollected work from beloved American humorist James Thurber includes nearly one hundred drawings and writings by the only cartoonist who could claim to draw "abstract things like despair, disillusion, despondency, sorrow, lapse of memory, exile."

Edited and with an Introduction by Michael J. Rosen.

About the Author

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James Thurber (1894-1961), one of America's most renowned humorists, was a staff writer and regular contributor to the New Yorker, where his short stories, essays, and cartoons were published for over 30 years. He wrote several books for children.
 

Praise For…

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"Above all James Thurber was a wit—a way of being that seems to have vanished from the American scene forever." — Washington Post Book World

"As funny, surprising, elegant, and subtly provocative as one would expect from that superb writer and draftsman." — Atlantic Monthly

"Vintage Thurber. . . small masterpieces of contemporary comment." — Chicago Tribune