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001 00192351
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010 $a 00192351
020 $a0738840831 (hardcover)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPS3539.H94$bZ67 2000
082 00 $a818/.5209$aB$221
100 1 $aFensch, Thomas.
245 14 $aThe man who was Walter Mitty :$bthe life and work of James Thurber /$cThomas Fensch.
260 $aThe Woodlands, Tx. :$bNew Century Books,$cc2000.
300 $a380 p. ;$c22 cm.
440 0 $aNew century exceptional lives series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 331-356) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: One -- The Fishers and the Thurbers -- The Thurbers were as bland and undistinguished as the -- Fishers were eccentric -- Two -- James Thurber: 1901-1918 -- " the restless imagination of a one-eyed sensitive boy of fourteen in Columbus, Ohio" -- Three -- James Thurber: 1918-1927 -- Golux, Todal, Nadaland Althea -- Four -- E.B. White and Harold Ross -- In White and Ross, Thurber hadfound two men equal to his own genius, and he hadfound them at the tine their own genius was yet to be discovered. -- Five -- James Thurber: 1927-1932 -- "It takes two to make a neurosis " -- Six -- James Thurber: 1932-1937 -- "Is sex necessary, Mr. Thurber?" -- Seven -- James Thurber: 1937-1940 -- "Throw on the power lights! We're going through!" -- The pounding of the cylinders increased: -- Ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-- Eight -- James Thurber: 1940-1945 -- Thurber's mental gyroscope, -- which had held him steady in the universefor years, -- now spun crazily out of control. -- Nine -- James Thurber: 1945-1953 -- " a great editor is afather, mother, teacher, -- personal devil and personal god " -- Ten -- James Thurber: 1953-1961 --a brilliant book about an eccentric editor, -- or an eccentric book about a brilliant editor -- Epilogue -- James Thurber: --his work-and world-is leavened -- with humor and tragedy.
600 10 $aThurber, James,$d1894-1961.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aHumorists, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aCartoonists$zUnited States$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/00192351.html