The Very First Published Thurber Drawing Edwin T. Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography, the must-have book for Thurbermaniacs tells us that Thurber’s very first published drawing in a periodical, shown above*, was in Ohio State University’s Sun-Dial, November, 1917. It was followed by seven more drawings in the same paper, the last appearing March 7, 1918. The timeline for Thurber’s
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Fave Photo Of The Day: Liza Donnelly & Edward Frascino This photo taken yesterday in Santa Monica. Ms. Donnelly is visiting the left coast, Mr. Frascino lives there. Edward Frascino began contributing to The New Yorker in September of 1965 (he was the subject of an Ink Spill interview in 2020, celebrating his 90th birthday). Ms. Donnelly began contributing
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Poking around Edwin Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography (Ohio State University Press, 1968) I came across wording I’d surely seen before but didn’t really think too much about. In the entry for Thurber & Company, published in 1966, five years after Thurber’s death, we see this: —Seven captions taken from A Thurber Carnival … are substituted for the
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There are a lot of fun Thurber factoids to be found in Edwin Bowden‘s James Thurber: A Bibliography (Ohio State University Press, 1968). Since I brought it home from Columbus, Ohio (I bought it in the Thurber House gift shop, of all places) I’ve gone to this book a zillion times for all sorts of Thurber-related issues that’ve come up.
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