Talk:James Thurber
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Figures, doesn't it, that this would turn out to be one of the more poorly-written articles in this so-called "encyclopedia". If Jim's up there reading this, I'm sure there's quite a jaundiced eye cast in this direction. +ILike2BeAnonymous 06:23, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
- Lest I be accused of being a nattering nabob of negativity, cf. S. J. Perelman for a counter-example. +ILike2BeAnonymous 06:40, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
- I doubt Thurber is "up there". He was an absolute monster of a human being - a vicious spouse abuser (who once threw his second wife across a room and gave her 50 stitches - of course, she worshipped him after his death), a bitter, violent alcoholic, and a malicious bastard who went out of the way to ruin other people's lives in any way he could. That such good, honest writing and such eloquent humor can come from such a twisted specimen is amazing. --NellieBly (talk) 17:41, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
It seems to me you've already expressed this opinion in the section above. It was irrelevant there, and it's irrelevant here. TheScotch (talk) 08:31, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
- There are quite unexpected personal descriptions of E. B. White’s, Harold Ross’s and James Thurber’s lifes and characters in the book Robert K. Greenleaf, “The Power of Servant Leadership”. You might want to check them out. – Publius (talk) 11:10, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
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- www.notablebiographies.com/St-Tr/Thurber-James.html
- James Thurber Biography, Encyclopedia of World Biography]
- "Blacklisting indicates past problems with the link, so any requests should clearly demonstrate how inclusion would benefit Wikipedia...Either that exact link, or a portion of it (typically the root domain name) is currently blocked."
- .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 18:46, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
- Maybe the lack of mention on this wiki page IRT his health?
- …The Last Flower appeared in 1939; that year Thurber …Collaboration.html with White on a play, The Male Animal. The play was a hit when it opened in 1940.
- But this was also the year that Thurber was forced to undergo a series of eye operations for cataract and trachoma, two serious eye conditions. His eyesight grew steadily worse until, in 1951, it was so weak that he did his last drawing. He spent the last decade of his life in blindness.
- But why is posting the link on talkpage is blocked as spam?
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- Maybe the lack of mention on this wiki page IRT his health?
FAC plans
I'm hoping to work on this article, and would like to eventually nominate it at FAC. Leaving this note here in case anyone else is interested in helping with the article. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:22, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
Change to short references
I'd like to change the citation style to short references. Does any editor of this article have any objections? If not I'll start making the change as I add more material over the next weeks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:57, 17 December 2024 (UTC)