I ran into the above while browsing the internet for all things Thurber. Not dated, but as you can see it was an ad for the Franklin Simon department store.
James Thurber’s Spill entry on the A-Z:
James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to the New Yorker’s legendary editor, William Shawn, “In the early days, a small company of writers, artists, and editors — E.B. White, James Thurber, Peter Arno, and Katharine White among them — did more to make the magazine what it is than can be measured.”
Key cartoon collection: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (Harper & Bros., 1932). Key anthology (writings & drawings): The Thurber Carnival (Harper & Row, 1945). There have been a number of Thurber biographies. Burton Bernstein’s Thurber (Dodd, Mead, 1975) and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times (Henry Holt & Co., 1995) are essential. Website
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Video Of Interest: Bruce Eric Kaplan In Conversation With B. J. Novak
Here’s an event I somehow missed posting years ago: Bruce Eric Kaplan in conversation on April 30, 2015 with B. J. Novak, a colleague from his other line of work. And since this is Thurber Thursday, how great is it that, at around the 43:45 mark, Mr. Kaplan mentions Thurber. Watch here.
Bruce Eric Kaplan’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z:
Bruce Eric Kaplan New Yorker work: 1991 – . Mr. Kaplan is also a television producer and writer. His writing and cartoon lives blended perfectly together in the classic Seinfeld episode, “The Cartoon.”
More info here on Wikipedia.