Here’s something that turned up on Ebay not long ago (and is still there, last time I checked): James Thurber’s Many Moons* released by Columbia Records in 1948 on two (“nonbreakable”) 10″ 78 rpm discs. The art is by Rick Staples Dodge.
You can listen to four tracks here (but just 45 seconds of each track).
*Many Moons (the book) was first published in 1943. Read about it here.
Further reading: an Ink Spill post, “Many Moons” from February 3, 2022).
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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 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