This year, Columbus-born writer, playwright and cartoonist James Thurber would have turned 130. Thurber was born in 1894 and died, at age 66, in 1961. By comparison, the area nonprofit arts ...

THURBER James, Age 54, of St. Paul, Minnesota Passed away on August 3, 2025, James was born on June 28th, 1971, in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Dale B. and Elisabeth Thurber. He was brought into God’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Thurber House, a nonprofit literary arts hub and historic landmark in Columbus, faces financial ...

“The definition of a fable shouldn’t be cramped,” wrote author, illustrator and humorist James Thurber in 1956. “It can embrace any pointed and recognizable aspect of human behavior, turned out in a ...

"It’s not the ink—it’s the think that makes a cartoon,” wrote longtime cartoon editor for “The New Yorker” magazine, Robert Mankoff. That’s fitting with James Thurber’s style and what he brought to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year, Columbus-born writer, playwright and cartoonist James Thurber would have turned 130. Thurber was born in 1894 and died, ...

Literary allusions are everywhere. What are they good for? By A.O. Scott You might think that celebrated adult authors writing for kids is a new trend. It isn’t. On a beer-splotched wall of a Midtown ...