Geburtstag: 8. Dezember 1894
Todesdatum: 2. November 1961
Andere Namen: James Grover Thurber
James Grover Thurber war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Zeichner, der vor allem durch seine Kurzgeschichten und Fabeln bekannt wurde, die überwiegend in dem Magazin The New Yorker erstveröffentlicht wurden.
"The Bear Who Let It Alone", The New Yorker (29. April 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940)
Original engl.: "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward."
zitiert im Time Magazine (New York, 15. August 1960) aus einem Interview mit Glenna Syse von der Chicago Sun-Times
Original engl.: "One (martini) is all right, two is too many, three is not enough."
"The Shore and the Sea", Further Fables for Our Time (first publication, 1956)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
"The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing", The New Yorker (29 April 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). The moral is ironic with respect to the fable, in which sheep do insufficient research before writing about wolves, resulting in the sheep being easy prey.
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
Variante: Don't get it right, just get it written.
— James Thurber, buch The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Quelle: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Quoted in New York Post (29 February 1960)
Letters and interviews
"The Scotty Who Knew Too Much", The New Yorker (18 February 1939)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
Lanterns and Lances (1961), p. 146; also misquoted as "There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
From Lanterns and Lances
"The Darlings at the Top of the Stairs", Lanterns & Lances (1961); previously appeared in The Queen and in Harper's Magazine.
From Lanterns and Lances
"An Introduction", The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (Simon and Schuster, 1943); reprinted in Thurber's Dogs (1955)
From other writings
"Carpe Noctem, If You Can", Credos and Curios (1962)
From other writings
