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December 8, 1894, Columbus, Ohio, USA - November 2, 1961, New York, USA - American writer, cartoonist and outstanding humorist.

Parents greatly influenced the future work of James; thus, his father, a clerk and petty politician, became the prototype for the protagonists of a number of Thurbert's stories. James called his mother a born comedian and one of the best comedians in the world.

As a child, while playing William Tell, James received an arrow in the eye; the doctors could not help him in anything - and Turber lost his eye. Later, the situation worsened even more - the boy was almost completely blind. It was no longer possible for him to go in for sports and active games; James was only helped by a highly developed imagination. Later, the theory arose that Thurbert's incredible creativity was due precisely to his trauma - with the so-called 'Charles Bonnet syndrome' in generally healthy mentally, but people suffering from vision problems, complex visual hallucinations are possible.

From 1913 to 1918, Thurber attended The Ohio State University. He did not succeed in graduating from the university - vision problems prevented him from completing the mandatory training course for reserve officers. Only in 1995, James was awarded the required degree - posthumously.

From 1918 to 1920, Thurbert worked as a cipher for the Department of State, first in Washington, DC, and then at the American Embassy in Paris. Returning to Columbus, Thurbert began writing - from 1921 to 1924 he worked as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch. James was engaged in reviews of book and film novelties; he was also in charge of the column 'Credos and Curios' - later this will be the name of the posthumous collection of his works.

For a while, Thurbert returned to Paris; there he collaborated with a number of well-known publications - like the 'Chicago Tribune'. Thurbert quickly developed a reputation among his colleagues as an eminently distinguished writer; Readers appreciated his simple, albeit slightly surreal, pictures no less. Many of James' stories were essentially humorous fictional memoirs; had, however, he wrote and darker works, like 'The Whip-Poor-Will' ('The Whip-Poor-Will').

Turber wrote and outright stories; there were more than 75 of them - most of them were included in the compilations 'Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated' and 'Further Fables for Our Time'. The stories were pretty typical of the genre - they were dedicated to the adventures of humanoid animals and almost always ended with a suitable morality.

James began drawing cartoons in 1930 - his colleague and friend Alvin Brooks White saw several of Thurber's amateur drawings and published some of them in the newspaper. Later, some of these drawings were reprinted again - already in color. In the 50s, James published both cartoons and short stories on a regular basis.

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