Burton Bernstein
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 548
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"James Thurber stands out as one of the world's great humorists and artists - and his work today remains as fresh and bitingly funny as when he first created it. Burton Bernstein's indispensable biography offers an unusually frank portrait of the man who called himself "a wild-eyed son-of-a-bitch with a glass in hand." Bernstein follows the famed New Yorker writer's transformation from a shy, handicapped Ohioan to a complex, tormented man. Filled with anecdotes and heavily illustrated with Thurber's own drawings, this definitive biography helps us understand how Thurber became the brilliant international literary figure who continues to capture our modern imagination."--Jacket.