Thurber Books, Post 1961: A Survey I thought it might be interesting to round up, and take a quick look at, the Thurber books that were published following his passing in 1961. The first two are old friends — they’ve have been with me for as long as I’ve been collecting Thurber books. Credos & Curios. Harper & Row, 1962.
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Just when I thought I’d seen every Thurber cover story, along came the issue of The Saturday Review shown here: Within the issue is a great review (shown below) of The Thurber Carnival by William Rose Benet, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the fellow who founded The Saturday Review (the Thurber portrait on the cover is a wood engraving by
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— This piece was originally posted in December of 2013. It has been updated and expanded. When I moved to Manhattan in the fall of 1976, just out of college, I was on a mission to be published by The New Yorker. Little did I know, when I rented an apartment at 113 West
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Saturday Review’s Salute To Thurber I believe that of all the notices following James Thurber’s passing in November 1961, it is E.B. White’s opening sentence in The New Yorker’s Thurber obituary (in the November 11th, ’61 issue) that is most remembered: “I am one of the lucky ones; I knew him before blindness hit him, before fame hit him, and
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