On Wikipedia it says he was playing William Tell with his brother, who missed.
In a collection of stories, however, the foreword says he gallantly offered to make breakfast of a ship after the cook was arrested and put stump powder in the pancakes, which exploded, destroying the galley and half the hull. Believe what you wish.
James Thurber was born on December 8, 1894.
James Thurber died on November 2, 1961 at the age of 66.
James Thurber died on November 2, 1961 at the age of 66.
James Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories that were published in The New Yorker.
Thurber and Emerson refers to James Thurber and Ralph Waldo Emerson, two American essayists. Thurber was born in Ohio, and Emerson was born in Massachusetts.
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James Thurber was born on December 8, 1894 and died on November 2, 1961. James Thurber would have been 66 years old at the time of death or 120 years old today.
E.B. White
"University Days" by James Thurber was first written and published in 1933 as part of his collection of essays titled "My Life and Hard Times".
James Thurber
The Night the Bed Fell by James Thurber...
Kent Thurber's birth name is J. Kent Thurber.