Condition: Used, Like New. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The dust cover may show very slight wear on the very corner edges. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.

Details: The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber, by Harrison Kinney with Rosemary Thurber

ISBN: 978-0743223430

Published: 2003

Pages: 816

"If you only know James Thurber from his beloved books, stories, and drawings, then this marvelous collection will be an education. In his letters Thurber could be warmly funny, yes, but also laceratingly so. His correspondence is wise, mischievous, erudite, and not infrequently bitter. This is a book to be relished by anyone who cares about Thurber, The New Yorker, or American letters in general.

-THOMAS KUNKEL, author of Genius In Disguise, the biography of Harold Ross, and editor of the collected letters of Ross, Letters from the Editor

"Was there anyone James Thurber didn't make time for? Here is a treasure chest of letters, brimming with gems (a bonus: he illustrated some of them). Whether writing to his daughter on her wedding day or to "Fred in Heaven," to a depressed Ernest Hemingway or to his old friend and former officemate E. B. White on the newly published Charlottes Web ("It starts out fine"), he was a captivating correspondent. He was endlessly curious, covering every topic from bloodhounds to Thurber hounds, General George B. McClellan in the Civil War to The New Yorker. And he was funny. You won't want to miss the letter granting his lawyer permission to publish some drawings—a masterpiece of nonsense legalese. Harrison Kinney deserves our thanks for this rich collection illuminated by helpful notes and asides. It is a perfect compliment to his definitive Thurber biography."

-LINDA H. DAVIS, author of Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White and The Red Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane "For readers who believe, as I do, that James Thurber is a permanently important American writer, the publication of The Thurber Letters is a major event. The sublime humorist everybody knows is richly here, but so are all the other Thurbers: the social satirist, the sour misogynist, our man at The New Yorker, the whimsical writer of children's stories, the historian of American trivia, the lover, the father, the friend, the enemy. A big book, as it should be, and a great read all the way." -SAMUEL HYNES, author of Flights of Passage, The Growing Seasons, The Auden Generation, and other major works of literary criticism