The man who was Walter Mitty
Subtitle: the life and work of James Thurber
By: Thomas Fensch.
Series: New century exceptional lives series
Publisher: New Century Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: The Woodlands, Tx
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Thurber, James, 1894-1961.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Humorists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-356) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: One; title: The Fishers and the Thurbers; title: The Thurbers were as bland and undistinguished as the; title: Fishers were eccentric; title: Two; title: James Thurber: 1901-1918; title: " the restless imagination of a one-eyed sensitive boy of fourteen in Columbus, Ohio"; title: Three; title: James Thurber: 1918-1927; title: Golux, Todal, Nadaland Althea; title: Four; title: E.B. White and Harold Ross; title: 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.; title: Five; title: James Thurber: 1927-1932; title: "It takes two to make a neurosis "; title: Six; title: James Thurber: 1932-1937; title: "Is sex necessary, Mr. Thurber?"; title: Seven; title: James Thurber: 1937-1940; title: "Throw on the power lights! We're going through!"; title: The pounding of the cylinders increased:; title: Ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa; title: Eight; title: James Thurber: 1940-1945; title: Thurber's mental gyroscope,; title: which had held him steady in the universefor years,; title: now spun crazily out of control.; title: Nine; title: James Thurber: 1945-1953; title: " a great editor is afather, mother, teacher,; title: personal devil and personal god "; title: Ten; title: James Thurber: 1953-1961; title: a brilliant book about an eccentric editor,; title: or an eccentric book about a brilliant editor; title: Epilogue; title: James Thurber:; title: his work-and world-is leavened; title: with humor and tragedy.