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| Name: |
James Grove Thurber | | Birth Date: |
December 8, 1894 | | Death Date: |
November 2, 1961 | | Place of Birth: |
Columbus, Ohio, United States | | Place of Death: |
New York, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, artist |
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Biography of James Grove Thurber
396 words, approx. 1.3 pages
 James Grove Thurber (1894-1961) was an American writer and artist. One of the most popular humorists of his time, Thurber celebrated in stories and in cartoons the comic frustrations of eccentric and statureless people. Born in Columbus, Ohio, James Thur...
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Biography of James Grove Thurber
15109 words, approx. 50.4 pages
 In a general survey of American humor, James Thurber comes after the traditional horsesense humorists and before the black humorists of the postatomic era. His most famous and most enduring work developed after he became associated in 1927 with the two-y...
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Biography of James (Grover) Thurber
14319 words, approx. 47.7 pages
 In a general survey of American humor, James Thurber comes after the traditional horse-sense humorists and before the black humorists of the postatomic era. His most famous and most enduring work developed after he became associated in 1927 with the two-...



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"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" Summary
3,515 words, approx. 12 pages "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber Born in Columbus, Ohio, James Thurber (1894-1961) moved to New York in 1926, where he worked as a reporter, writer, editor, and cartoonist. The unknown Thurber began sending his stories and humorous...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Information
1,767 words, approx. 6 pages
 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1941) is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's stories, it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939; and was first collected in his book My World and Welcome to It (Harcourt, Brace and...



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 Studies in American Fiction
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 The Independent - London
Walter Mitty life of butler `millionaire'
09/13/1997: 636 words, approx. 2 pages A Belgravia butler who served up lavish banquets of wild boar and pounds 1,500 bottles of Chateau Petrus in his employers' home before stealing their pounds 59,000 Bentley Turbo was jailed for three-and-a-half years yesterday. Percival Hole, described by Judge David Elfer as...
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 The New York Observer
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, I Mean Valerie (Plame)
5/7/2006: 306 words, approx. 1 pages said to be getting $2.5 million for a memoir of her life as a CIA analyst, demonstrating that the leaking of her name is the best thing that ever happened to her career. Much as I hope this case will take down the vicious...



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 Essay Grade: 92%
Living a Lie in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and "The Lady With The Dog"
878 words, approx. 3 pages
 it is a comparison of Anton Chekov's The lady Living a secret life to escape from a painful reality is the theme of James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekov. The main characters' hidden lives helped make their reality more bearable.
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 Essay Grade: 86%
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 Essay Grade: 88%


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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber | |
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