Thurber, Wry Minimalist, Joins a Literary Pantheon Biography

• Published in: The New York times
• Main Author: Gussow, Mel
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, N.Y New York Times Company 03.02.1997
• Edition: Late Edition (East Coast)
• Subjects: Books and Magazines; Cartoonists; Humor; James Thurber; Literary criticism; Thurber, James (1894-1961); Writers

James Thurber was, by his own description, a ''short-piece writer'': 10 pages or less, and on to the next work. Once he collaborated (with Elliott Nugent) on a full-length play, ''The Male Animal,'' but he was not about to write a Jamesian novel or a tell-all-...