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==Bibliography== ===Books=== *''[[Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do]]'' (1929 with [[E. B. White]]), ::75th anniv. edition (2004) with foreword by [[John Updike]], {{ISBN|0-06-073314-4}} *''[[The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities]]'', 1931 *''The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments'', 1932 *''[[My Life and Hard Times]]'', 1933, {{ISBN|0-06-093308-9}} *''The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze'', 1935 *''Let Your Mind Alone! and Other More or Less Inspirational Pieces'', 1937 *''[[The Last Flower]]'', 1939, reissued 2007, {{ISBN|978-1-58729-620-8}} *''[[Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated]]'', 1940, {{ISBN|0-06-090999-4}} *''[[My World and Welcome to It (book)|My World—And Welcome to It]]'', 1942, {{ISBN|0-15-662344-7}} *''Men, Women and Dogs'', 1943 *''The Thurber Carnival'' (anthology), 1945, {{ISBN|0-06-093287-2}}, ::{{ISBN|0-394-60085-1}} (Modern Library Edition) *''The Beast in Me and Other Animals'', 1948, {{ISBN|0-15-610850-X}} *''The Thurber Album'', 1952 *''Thurber Country'', 1953 *''Thurber's Dogs'', 1955 *''Further Fables for Our Time'', 1956 *''Alarms and Diversions'' (anthology), 1957 *''The Years with Ross'', 1959, {{ISBN|0-06-095971-1}} *''Lanterns and Lances'', 1961 ===Children's books=== *''[[Many Moons]]'', 1943 *''The Great Quillow'', 1944 *''[[The White Deer]]'', 1945 *''[[The 13 Clocks]]'', 1950 *''[[The Wonderful O]]'', 1957 ===Plays=== *''[[The Male Animal]]'', 1940 (with [[Elliott Nugent]]) *''[[A Thurber Carnival]]'', 1960 ===Posthumous books=== *''Credos and Curios'', 1962 (ed. Helen W. Thurber) *''Thurber & Company'', 1966 (ed. Helen W. Thurber) *''Selected Letters of James Thurber'', 1981 (ed. Helen W. Thurber & Edward Weeks) {{ISBN|978-0-316844-44-4}} *''Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself'', 1989 (ed. [[Michael J. Rosen]]) *''Thurber on Crime'', 1991 (ed. Robert Lopresti) {{ISBN|978-0-892964-50-5}} *''People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber'', 1994 (ed. Michael J. Rosen) {{ISBN|978-0-151000-94-4}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ervolino |first1=Bill |title=JAMES THURBER'S WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22497215.html |access-date=April 23, 2023 |work=[[The Record (North Jersey)]] |publisher=[[HighBeam Research]] |date=December 17, 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102173454/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22497215.html |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |location=Bergen County, NJ |pages=}}</ref> *''James Thurber: Writings and Drawings'' (anthology), 1996, (ed. [[Garrison Keillor]]), [[Library of America]], {{ISBN|978-1-883011-22-2}} *''The Dog Department: James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties, and Talking Poodles'', 2001 (ed. Michael J. Rosen) {{ISBN|978-0-060196-56-1}} *''The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber'', 2002 (ed. Harrison Kinney, with Rosemary A. Thurber) {{ISBN|978-0-743223-43-0}} *''Collected Fables'', 2019 (ed. [[Michael J. Rosen]]), ISBN *''A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of James Thurber'', 2019 (ed. [[Michael J. Rosen]]) {{ISBN|978-0814255339}} ===Short stories=== {{Incomplete list|date=January 2011}} {{div col|colwidth=18em}} <!-- column width of 10em ; default width is 30em --> * “A Box to Hide In” * "The Admiral on the Wheel" * "[[A Couple of Hamburgers]]" * "A Ride with Olympy" * "A Sequence of Servants" * "The Bear Who Let it Alone" * "The Black Magic of Barney Haller" * "The Breaking Up of the Winships", 1945 * "The Cane in the Corridor" * "The Car We Had to Push" * "[[The Catbird Seat]]", 1942 * "The Crow and the Oriole" * "The Curb in the Sky"<ref>{{cite news|publisher=New Yorker|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1931/11/28/the-curb-in-the-sky|title=The Curb in the Sky|date=November 20, 1931|access-date=July 31, 2021|archive-date=July 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731090157/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1931/11/28/the-curb-in-the-sky|url-status=live}}</ref> * "The Day the Dam Broke" * "The Departure of Emma Inch" * "Destructive Forces Life" * "Doc Marlowe" * "Draft Board Nights" * "File and Forget"<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Thurber|first=James|date=January 8, 1949|title=File and Forget|magazine=The New Yorker|volume=24|issue=46|pages=24–48}}</ref> * "If Grant had been Drinking at Appomattox" * "More Alarms at Night" * "Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife" * "Oh When I Was..." * "One is a Wanderer" * "Sex Ex Machina" * "Snapshot of a Dog" * "The Dog That Bit People" * "The Evening's at Seven" * "The Figgerin' Of Aunt Wilma"<ref name="newyorker/figgerin-of-aunt-wilma">{{cite magazine |title=The Figgerin' Of Aunt Wilma |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1950/06/10/the-figgerin-of-aunt-wilma |access-date=April 24, 2023 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=June 3, 1950 |archive-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831020405/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1950/06/10/the-figgerin-of-aunt-wilma |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="youtube=fdvBZItSJTg">{{cite web |author1=Omnibus With Alistair Cooke |title="Figgerin' of Aunt Wilma" (James Thurber Story) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdvBZItSJTg |website=youtube |access-date=April 24, 2023 |language=en |date=April 26, 1953 |quote=Omnibus - © RSA Venture, LLC, renewed 1990 |archive-date=April 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424024044/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdvBZItSJTg&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> * “A Friend to Alexander” * "The Glass in the Field" * "The Greatest Man in the World" * "The Lady on 142" * "The Little Girl and the Wolf" * "The Macbeth Murder Mystery", 1937 <!-- (printed in ''The New Yorker'') --> * "The Man Who Hated Moonbaum" * "[[The Moth and the Star]]" * "[[The Night the Bed Fell]]" * "The Night the Ghost Got In" * "The Owl Who Was God" *"The Peacelike Mongoose" * "[[The Princess and the Tin Box]]" * "[[The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble]]" * "The Remarkable Case of Mr.Bruhl" * "The Scotty Who Knew Too Much" * "The Seal Who Became Famous" * "The Secret Life of James Thurber", 1943 * "[[The Secret Life of Walter Mitty]]" * "The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing", 1939<!-- ''The New Yorker'' (April 29, 1939) --> * "The Subjunctive Mood", 1929 * "The Tiger Who Was to Be King" * "The Topaz Cuff Links Mystery" * "[[The Unicorn in the Garden]]" * "The Whip-Poor-Will" * "The Wood Duck" * "University Days" * "What Do You Mean It Was Brillig?" * "You Could Look It Up", 1941 {{div col end}}
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