Historical Marker I’ve no idea how many New Yorker cartoonists have been honored with a historical marker.* Here’s James Thurber’s in Columbus, Ohio: It rests outside of Thurber House. More here. _________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s A-Z Entry James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According
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Event Of Interest: Tom Toro In Conversation If you’re out Columbus, Ohio way this November, you’ll be able to catch Tom Toro in conversation with OSU’s Jenny Robb at The Thurber House. Mr. Toro began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010. His collection, And To Think We Started As A Book Club, will
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If you live in or near Columbus, Ohio (where James Thurber was born waaaay back in 1894), you can honor him this coming Saturday while helping out Thurber House by attending a fundraiser. All the info here. About the fundraiser from The Columbus Dispatch (where Thurber worked before heading off to the bright lights and big city): “The event will
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Latest Addition to The Thurber Library The second German title this week! An Arno collection was mentioned here on Tuesday. I won’t be acquiring every single foreign Thurber title I come across, but as this one’s theme is dogs, I couldn’t resist (I couldn’t resist the cover graphics either). It’s a 1958 paperback edition of Thurber’s Dogs, originally published in
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