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==Legacy and honors== * Established in 1997, the annual [[Thurber Prize for American Humor|Thurber Prize]] honors outstanding examples of American humor.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2009/10/06/thurber_prize.html | title=Frazier first to win Thurber Prize twice | newspaper=The Columbus Dispatch | date=October 5, 2009 | author=Grossberg, Michael | access-date=July 28, 2016 | archive-date=August 9, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809014410/http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2009/10/06/thurber_prize.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> * In 2008, the [[Library of America]] selected Thurber's story, "A Sort of Genius", first published in ''The New Yorker'', for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.loa.org/books/289-true-crime-an-american-anthology | title=True Crime: An American Anthology | publisher=Library of America | access-date=July 28, 2016 | archive-date=December 22, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222100328/https://www.loa.org/books/289-true-crime-an-american-anthology | url-status=live }}</ref> * Two of his residences have been listed on the U.S. [[National Register of Historic Places]]: his childhood [[Thurber House]] in Ohio and the [[Sanford–Curtis–Thurber House]] in [[Fairfield County, Connecticut]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ct/fairfield/state5.html | title=CONNECTICUT - Fairfield County | publisher=National Register of Historic Places | access-date=July 28, 2016 | archive-date=August 31, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831020342/https://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ct/fairfield/state5.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/oh/franklin/state6.html | title=OHIO - Franklin County | publisher=National Register of Historic Places}}</ref>
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