Six Covers In his thirty-four years as a New Yorker contributor, James Thurber did six covers for the magazine. The covers, shown above, are dated, left to right: February 29, 1936, April 29, 1939, April 27, 1940, July 5, 1941, October 3, 1942, February 9, 1946. You might remember that the February ’36 cover was brought back as a cover
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Michael Rosen, who knows his Thurber, recently mentioned this 1960 unaired* television pilot to me. Love the dogs in “Thurber’s” studio. Link to “The Secret Life Of James Thurber” here. *Possibly aired? Thurber’s wikipedia entry states: In 1961, “The Secret Life of James Thurber” aired on The DuPont Show with June Allyson. Adolphe Menjou appeared in the program as Fitch, and Orson Bean and Sue Randall portrayed
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Latest Addition to The Spill Library…The UK Thurber Carnival James Thurber’s The Thurber Carnival has been, and always will be my #1 Thurber book, if not my #1 book. There are reasons aplenty, but the most important (to me) is that it contains “What have you done with Dr.
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There are but seven illustrations in Frank Case’s 1938 Tales Of A Wayward Inn — the “Wayward Inn” being The Algonquin Hotel (Mr. Case owned the place back in the Round Table days). Below is one of the seven: James Thurber’s take on the Algonquin’s lounge. According to Harrison Kinney’s Thurber bio, Thurber only attended one Round Table gathering (along
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