The collected works of James Thurber, now numbering 25 volumes ( including the present exhibit ) represent a high standard of literary excellence, as every schoolboy knows.

In substance they lie somewhere between the Southern dialect animal stories of Joel Chandler Harris ( Uncle Remus ) and the polished, witty fables of James Thurber.

* 1894 – James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist ( d. 1961 )

James Thurber described White as being a quiet man, disliking publicity, who during his time at The New Yorker would slip out of his office via the fire escape to a nearby branch of Schrafft's to avoid visitors whom he didn't know.

Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do ( 1929, with James Thurber )

James Thurber used the ancient fable style in his books Fables for Our Time ( 1940 ) and Further Fables for Our Time ( 1956 ), and in his stories " The Princess and the Tin Box " in The Beast in Me and Other Animals ( 1948 ) and " The Last Clock: A Fable for the Time, Such As It Is, of Man " in Lanterns and Lances ( 1961 ).

* James Thurber ( 1894 – 1961 ), Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time.

* Fables for Our Time ( 1940 ) and Further Fables for Our Time ( 1956 ) by James Thurber

* The Princess and the Tin Box by James Thurber

The " Outlines " became sufficiently common for James Thurber to parody the trend in his humorous essay, " An Outline of Scientists "— indeed, Wells's Outline of History remains in print with a new 2005 edition, while A Short History of the World has been recently reedited ( 2006 ).

White, S. J. Perelman, and James Thurber, amongst others.

The likes of Bob Dylan, Serge Gainsbourg and The Rolling Stones combined popular musical traditions with modernist verse, adopting literary devices derived from James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, James Thurber, T. S. Eliot, Guillaume Apollinaire, Allen Ginsberg, and others.

** James Thurber

* An REO is mentioned in a humorous 1933 short story by James Thurber entitled, The Car We Had to Push.

In subsequent decades the magazine published short stories by many of the most respected writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Ann Beattie, John Cheever, Roald Dahl, John McNulty, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, John O ' Hara, Philip Roth, J. D. Salinger, Irwin Shaw, James Thurber, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and E. B.

* The Years with Ross by James Thurber ( 1959 )

* November 2 – James Thurber, American humorist ( b. 1894 )

** James Thurber, American writer ( d. 1961 )

This selection presents texts from the Bible, Charles Dickens, Thomas Wolfe, Ray Bradbury, and James Thurber to name just a few.

James Thurber wrote:

Peggy Cass ( left ), with James Thurber and Joan Anderson in A Thurber Carnival, 1960.

Cass was also part of the nine member ensemble cast for the 1960 Broadway revue A Thurber Carnival, adapted by James Thurber from his own works.