Editing James Thurber (section)

===Marriage and family===
Thurber married Althea Adams in 1922, although the marriage, as he later wrote to a friend, devolved into "a relationship charming, fine, and hurting".<ref>{{cite web|title=Is Sex Necessary?|url=https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/2018/9/7/is-sex-necessary|website=The Attic|date=September 7, 2018|access-date=September 8, 2018|archive-date=April 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406041526/https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/2018/9/7/is-sex-necessary|url-status=live}}</ref> They lived in the [[Sanford–Curtis–Thurber House]], in [[Fairfield County, Connecticut]], with their daughter Rosemary<ref name="lithub/grandfathers-book">{{cite web |last1=Sauers |first1=Sara T. |title=Designing Your Grandfather's Book (When He's James Thurber) |url=https://lithub.com/designing-your-grandfathers-book-when-hes-james-thurber/ |website=[[Literary Hub]] |access-date=April 23, 2023 |date=August 30, 2019 |archive-date=December 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228050210/https://lithub.com/designing-your-grandfathers-book-when-hes-james-thurber/ |url-status=live }}</ref> (b. 1931).<ref name="connecticutcreativeplaces/sanford-curtis-thurber">{{cite web |title=71 Riverside Road, Newtown |url=https://connecticutcreativeplaces.org/places/sanford-curtis-thurber-house |website=Connecticut Creative Places |access-date=April 23, 2023}}</ref><ref name="newstimes/11055925">{{cite news |last1=Koerting |first1=Katrina |title=Newtown home once belonged to humorist James Thurber |url=https://www.newstimes.com/realestate/article/Newtown-home-once-belonged-to-humorist-James-11055925.php |access-date=April 23, 2023 |work=[[The News-Times]] |date=April 6, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/12/archives/a-window-into-thurbers-secret-life.html|title=A Window Into Thurber's Secret Life|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Michael|last=Knight|date=March 12, 1975|access-date=August 4, 2018|archive-date=August 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804201414/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/12/archives/a-window-into-thurbers-secret-life.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The marriage ended in divorce in May 1935, and Althea kept<ref name="ctpost/11055925">{{cite news |last1=Koerting |first1=Katrina |title=Newtown home once belonged to humorist James Thurber |url=https://www.ctpost.com/realestate/article/Newtown-home-once-belonged-to-humorist-James-11055925.php |access-date=April 23, 2023 |work=[[Connecticut Post]] |date=April 6, 2017 |quote=At one point, Thurber had drawn several cartoons on the baseboards, but when he and his wife, Althea, divorced in 1935, she got the house and wallpapered them over. |archive-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423191018/https://www.ctpost.com/realestate/article/Newtown-home-once-belonged-to-humorist-James-11055925.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Sanford–Curtis–Thurber House.<ref name="Authors"/> He married his editor, Helen Muriel Wismer (1902–1986) in June 1935.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Helen Thurber Is Dead at 84; Edited Writings of Husband|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/26/obituaries/helen-thurber-is-dead-at-84-edited-writings-of-husband.html|journal=The New York Times|access-date=January 11, 2016|date=December 26, 1986|archive-date=March 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308232626/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/26/obituaries/helen-thurber-is-dead-at-84-edited-writings-of-husband.html|url-status=live}}</ref> After meeting [[Mark Van Doren]] on a ferry to [[Martha's Vineyard]], Thurber began summering in [[Cornwall, Connecticut|Cornwall]], Connecticut, along with many other prominent artists and authors of the time. After three years of renting, Thurber found a home, which he referred to as "The Great Good Place", in Cornwall, Connecticut.<ref name="connecticutcreativeplaces/Great Good Place">{{cite web |title=92 Great Hollow Road, Cornwall |url=https://connecticutcreativeplaces.org/places/birdseye-and-tanner-brook-farm |website=Connecticut Creative Places |access-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831020343/https://connecticutcreativeplaces.org/places/birdseye-and-tanner-brook-farm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Sommer|first=Mimi G.|date=August 3, 1997|title=Finding Thurber at Grandfather's House|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/nyregion/finding-thurber-at-grandfather-s-house.html|access-date=September 2, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407115113/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/nyregion/finding-thurber-at-grandfather-s-house.html|url-status=live}}</ref>