Thurber was innate inside Columbus, Ohio. He joined a staff of The Up to date Yorker inside 1927 & continued to contribute to the magazine through the 1950s.

Due to the childhood injury, Thurber suffered from either super unfortunate sightedness & his eyes grew weaker when he grew older. He drew his cartoons in super big sheets of paper utilizing the heavy nigrify wax crayon, yielding the two an eerie, wonky sense that seems to mirror Thurber's idiosyncratic look at in life. Numbers of of his short stories come humourous invented memoirs from either his life, however he besides wrote darker lesson.

"The Dog Who Bit People" & "The Night the Bed Fell on My Father" come among his better short stories; it may be witnessed around Our Life & Difficult Days. Too notable, & typically anthologized, come "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", "The Greatest Man in the World" & "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomatox", which can be found in The Thurber Carnival.

The network television show based on Thurber's writings & life, entitled My World and Welcome to It was broadcast 1969 to 1970.

Thurber died at age 66 around New York City.

Life story of Thurber include Remember Laughter: The Life of James Thurber by Neil The. Grauer, & James Thurber: His Life & Days by Harrison Kinney.

Quotations
"Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." "One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough." "Don't get it right; get it written." "It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be." "There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else." "Never allow a nervous female to have access to a pistol, no matter what you're wearing."

Books
Is Sex Necessary? (with E. B. White), 1929 A Hooter in the Attic & More Perplexities, 1931 A Lock in the Chamber, 1932 Our Life & Difficult Days, 1933 ISBN 0060933089 A Middle Aged Human on the Flying Trapeeze, 1935 Let The Mind Alone!, 1937 A Previous Flower, 1939 A Male Animate being, 1939 (by using Elliot Nugent) Fables for My Period & Famed Verse form, 1940 ISBN 0060909994 Our Globe & Welcome To that, 1942 ISBN 0156623447 Several Moons, 1943 Men, Women, & Dogs, 1943 A Thurber Carnival (anthology), 1945, ISBN 0060932872 A Animal inside Pine tree state & More Brute, 1948 ISBN 015610850X ''A Baker's dozen Clocks (toddlers), 1950 Thurber United states, 1953 Howling O, (tykes) 1957 A Years by having Ross, 1959 ISBN 0060959711 James Thurber: Writings & Drawings'', 1996, (ed. Garrison Keillor), Library of America, ISBN 1883011221 (others)