Museums and other Thurber Institutions: | |
| Thurber's House | The Web site for the restored nineteenth-century house where Thurber lived during his college days with his parents, two brothers, numerous pet dogs, and an occasional relative. There's a museum room, tours, visiting authors, and contact information for their gift shop. |
| Thurber House in Columbus, OH | Contact information and an article on Thurber's childhood home in Columbus, Ohio. |
| Thurber Family Genealogy Forum | For those of you interested in tracing the Thurber family line, here's a virtual meeting place for those with similar interests to exchange information. |
Web Sites by other Thurber fans: | |
| Thurber discussion board | A virtual meeting place for folks to discuss the American wit, writer and illustrator, and one of the founding fathers of the New Yorker magazine. It's very interesting to browse around this site. |
| Ritter's Thurber Page | A useful collection of Thurber-related resources, including lists of films, TV productions, etc. based on his works, a small collection of Thurber aphorisms, and several links to other sites containing Thurber bits and pieces. |
| The Night the Bed Fell The Bear Who Let It Alone The Little Girl and the Wolf | The Rabbits That Caused All the Trouble The Unicorn in the Garden |
| Thurber's Artwork | A nice collection of scanned-in Thurber cartoons, plus a few links to some short Thurber works. |
| Joplin R-VIII School District's Page on Thurber | Despite the rather distracting choice of background, this is a very nice collection of Thurber-related information, including a cartoon gallery, a list of major literary awards, a short biography, and various other lists and quotes. |
| Thurberelia | A short list of links to yet more Thurber works available online, as well as entries in various online reference resources, plus the bonus of the site author's own research paper on Thurber. |
Thurber Bios, Entries and Mentions: | |
| New Sun Thurber Page | New Sun's short bio on Thurber. |
| Encarta Encyclopedia on Thurber | A Free Concise Encyclopedia Article on Thurber, with small photograph. |
| Ohio Biography Thurber Page | Contains a few facts and a nice photograph of Thurber with one of his dogs. |
| Pegasus on Thurber | A "Literature related resource site" provides a short write-up on Thurber, crediting him with influencing the likes of Vonnegut and Heller. |
| Infoplease.com's entry on Thurber | An entry with the bare minimum of information: Birthplace, birthdate and death. Hardly worth a click. |
| Reference to Thurber in a Scholarly Presentation | A presentation on Archiving Digital Information to the OCLC Research Library Directors' Conference, in which the speakers comments on Thurber's Many Moons as a vehicle for his main point. |
| Merriam-Webster on Thurber | Merriam-Webster's "Word for the Wise" entry on Thurber. |
| Thematical analysis of three short stories | Another individual's short research paper on the Author, complete with a works cited list. |
| Fable Forum | A source of the full-text for Thurber's Interview with a Lemming, The Shore and the Sea, Many Moons, and a few others. |
| Anecdotes | This site use two of Thurber's dog sketches to illustrate entries on dog expressions and quotes, and provides a nice biographical entry on Thurber himself. |
James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times and the
PBS press release announcing the documentary and
Information on Images, Captions and Rights. | JAMES THURBER: THE LIFE AND HARD TIMES, the first major documentary about James Thurber (1894-1961), chronicles his varied accomplishments as writer, journalist, playwright, cartoonist and social critic - all despite the blindness that handicapped him for the last 20 years of his life. |
| Entries in Quote Geek | There are several Thurber quotes available in Quote Geek, an online resource for quotes. |
| A Good Thurber Dog Quote | This is just a link to a single quote by Thurber from The Fireside Book Of Dog Stories, an anthology of dog stories with an introduction and illustrations by Thurber. |
| The Baseball Online Library's Thurber Entry | The entry is about Thurber's "You Could Look It Up," about a struggling baseball team that hires a midget to pinch hit. |
| The Royal Prune University Tribute to Thurber | Royal Prune University (RPU) is the only fully accredited, top-ranked, degree granting university dedicated entirely to wit, silliness, good humor, and, probably, a few other things. There are a few links from this tribute page to minor sources of Thurber quotes. |
Thurber-related Gifts (visit full item list): | |
| Thurber Dogs Jumper and Tee-shirt - sold at Signals.com | I finally found a shop online selling Thurber artwork on clothing. This jumper is embroidered front and center with one of Thurber's amiable canines contemplating a book. There is also a 100% cotton, scoop neck tee embroidered at the neck with five small flowers. Find this and additional Thurber-related items that are available online listed on my new page,
Shop for Thurber-Related Gifts. |