Thurber Thursday: Thurber In A Tent And A Canoe

Buried in Harrison Kinney’s monumental Thurber biography (James Thurber: His Life and Times, Henry Holt, 1995) is a passage (on page 306) about the period (in 1926) just before Thurber (and his first first wife, Althea) moved to Horatio Street in Greenwich Village, and broke into The New Yorker. The strip cartoonist, Victor (“Dwig”) Dwiggins (creator of “School Days” among

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