James Thurber

James Thurber was born in 1894 in Columbus, Ohio, and lost his left eye at the age of seven, struck by an arrow shot by his brother. He left Ohio State University without a degree and worked as a code clerk at the American embassy in Paris from 1918 to 1920. In 1927, after meeting E. B. White, he joined The New Yorker, where he contributed texts and drawings for years. As his sight declined, he stopped drawing, but continued to write until his death, in New York, in 1961.

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• NarrativeMy Life and Hard TimesJames Thurber · 1933Literature