James Thurber - Bibliography

Bibliography

Books

  • Is Sex Necessary? or, Why You Feel The Way You Do (spoof of sexual psychology manuals, with E. B. White), 1929, 75th anniv. edition (2004) with foreword by John Updike, ISBN 0-06-073314-4
  • The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities, 1931
  • The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments, 1932
  • My Life and Hard Times, 1933 ISBN 0-06-093308-9
  • The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, 1935
  • Let Your Mind Alone! and Other More Or Less Inspirational Pieces, 1937
  • The Last Flower, 1939, reissued 2007 ISBN 978-1-58729-620-8
  • The Male Animal (stage play), 1939 (with Elliot Nugent) and screenplay starring Henry Fonda, written by Stephen Morehouse Avery
  • Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, 1940 ISBN 0-06-090999-4
  • My World and Welcome to It, 1942 ISBN 0-15-662344-7
  • Many Moons, (children) 1943
  • Men, Women, and Dogs, 1943
  • The Great Quillow, (children) 1944
  • The Thurber Carnival (anthology), 1945, ISBN 0-06-093287-2, ISBN 0-394-60085-1 (Modern Library Edition)
  • The White Deer, (children) 1945
  • The Beast in Me and Other Animals, 1948 ISBN 0-15-610850-X
  • The 13 Clocks, (children) 1950
  • The Thurber Album, 1952
  • Thurber Country, 1953
  • Thurber's Dogs, 1955
  • Further Fables For Our Time, 1956
  • The Wonderful O, (children) 1957
  • Alarms and Diversions (anthology), 1957
  • The Years With Ross, 1959 ISBN 0-06-095971-1
  • A Thurber Carnival (stage play), 1960
  • Lanterns and Lances, 1961

Posthumous Books

  • Credos and Curios, 1962 (ed. Helen W. Thurber)
  • Thurber & Company, 1966 (ed. Helen W. Thurber)
  • Selected Letters of James Thurber, 1981 (ed. Helen W. Thurber & Edward Weeks)
  • Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself, 1989 (ed. Michael J. Rosen)
  • Thurber On Crime, 1991 (ed. Robert Lopresti)
  • People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber, 1994 (ed. Michael J. Rosen)
  • James Thurber: Writings and Drawings (anthology), 1996, (ed. Garrison Keillor), Library of America, ISBN 978-1-883011-22-2
  • The Dog Department: James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties, and Talking Poodles, 2001 (ed. Michael J. Rosen)
  • The Thurber Letters, 2002 (ed. Harrison Kinney, with Rosemary A. Thurber)

Short stories

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  • "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • "The Night the Bed Fell
  • "The Unicorn in the Garden"
  • "The Moth and the Star"
  • "The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble"
  • "The Macbeth Murder Mystery", 1937 (printed in The New Yorker)
  • "You Could Look It Up", 1941
  • "The Catbird Seat", 1942
  • "The Breaking up of the Winships", 1945
  • "A Couple of Hamburgers"
  • "The Greatest Man in the World"
  • "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox"
  • "The Bear Who Let It Alone"
  • "The Princess and the Tin Box"
  • "The Dog that Bit People"
  • "The Lady on 142"
  • "The Scotty Who Knew Too Much"
  • "The Night the Ghost Got In"
  • "The Car We Had to Push"
  • "The Day the Dam Broke"
  • "More Alarms at Night"
  • "A Sequence of Servants"
  • "University Days"
  • "Draft Board Nights"
  • "File and Forget"

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