![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tobias on the one hand and the team of Walter Blair and Hamlin Hill on the other. The poles are well represented by Richard C. There is disagreement among critics as to the drift of the attitudes and themes reflected in James Thurber’s work. Thurber seemed to prefer to work on the borderlines between conventional forms. As a result, most of his writings can be treated as short fiction. Many of his first-person autobiographical sketches are known to be “fact” rather than fiction only through careful biographical research. His “memoirs” in My Life and Hard Times are clearly fictionalized. ![]() His essays frequently employ stories and are “fictional” in recognizable ways. To discuss Thurber as an artist in the short-story form is difficult, however, because of the variety of things he did that might legitimately be labeled short stories. James Thurber (Decem– November 2, 1961) is best known as the author of humorous sketches, stories, and reminiscences dealing with urban bourgeois American life. ![]()
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