Chronology: Key Dates in the life of James Thurber
p. 19
Prologue: James Thurber: "I wouldn't shoot anyone in the back..."
p. 25
The Fishers and the Thurbers: The Thurbers were as bland and undistinguished as the Fishers were eccentric...
p. 27
James Thurber: 1901-1918: "...the restless imagination of a one-eyed sensitive boy of fourteen in Columbus, Ohio..."
p. 34
James Thurber: 1918-1927: Golux, Todal, Nadal ... and Althea
p. 55
E.B. White and Harold Ross: In White and Ross, Thurber had found two men equal to his own genius, and he had found them at the time their own genius was yet to be discovered
p. 93
James Thurber: 1927-1932: "It takes two to make a neurosis..."
p. 127
James Thurber: 1932-1937: "Is sex necessary, Mr. Thurber?"
p. 159
James Thurber: 1937-1940: "Throw on the power lights! We're going through!" The pounding of the cylinders increased: Ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa...
p. 190
James Thurber: 1940-1945: Thurber's mental gyroscope, which had held him steady in the universe for years, now spun crazily out of control
p. 226
James Thurber: 1945-1953: "...a great editor is a father, mother, teacher, personal devil and personal god..."
p. 263
James Thurber: 1953-1961: ...a brilliant book about an eccentric editor, or an eccentric book about a brilliant editor...
p. 297
Epilogue: James Thurber: ...his work--and world--is leavened with humor and tragedy...
p. 328
Notes
p. 331
Bibliography
p. 353
Index
p. 357
About the Author...
p. 381
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