Books
THURBER’S DOGS by James Thurber (Fireside: $12; 320 pp.).
Nov. 29, 1992
Entertainment & Arts
LANTERNS & LANCES by James Thurber (Primus/Donald I. Fine: $10; 215 pp., illustrated).
Oct. 4, 1992
Harrison Kinney wrote a college thesis on Thurber, tracked down his hero at the New Yorker, landed a job there as a reporter and spent more than 40 years compiling the material that forms the substance of his exhaustive but ultimately winning book.
Dec. 29, 1996
A book doesn’t have to be a movie tie-in to see the benefit of a film’s release.
Feb. 11, 2014
REMEMBER LAUGHTER: A Life of James Thurber by Neil A.
Aug. 20, 1995
Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of James Thurber’s birth, “Remember Laughter,” a succinct biography, is a gift package of mixed messages.
Dec. 12, 1994
The obsession that led Harrison Kinney to write his epic new biography, “James Thurber: His Life and Times,” began when Kinney was a seventh-grader in Maine and stumbled on Thurber’s work at his local library.
Jan. 21, 1996
“Parting Word”: James Thurber, 1872-1970 (Book Review, Jan. 19.).
Feb. 9, 1986
James Thurber’s story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is very short: 15 paragraphs, barely 2,000 words.
July 31, 2013
Alan Zweibel, an author and former “Saturday Night Live” writer, won the Thurber Prize for American Humor on Monday.
Nov. 7, 2006