Conversations With James Thurber by Thomas Fensch

In Conversation with James Thurber, this remarkable man, who has been called Americas twentieth-century Mark Twain, and who was one of the great talkers of his time expresses his opinions on just about everything and recounts stories and anecdotes about his life which provided the basis for much of his humor and his writing. Articles in this collection are all the public interviews Thurber gave during his lifetime, in chronological order. In this collection we can visualize the Thurber men, the Thurber women, his dogs, his wit, imagination and wordplay, his blindness, his years at The New Yorker magazine and his own unique perceptions of the world.