Thurber
Proper noun
Meaning
Thurber (plural Thurbers)
A surname.
Examples
American author James Thurber wrote The Wonderful O (1957), a fairy tale in which villains ban the letter 'O' from use by the inhabitants of the island of Oooroo.
Directed and written by Rawson Marshall Thurber, stars Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Ritu Arya and Chris Diamantopoulos.
He remarried in June 1935 to Helen Wismer (1902–1986). citation Death Thurber was stricken with a blood clot on the brain on October 4, 1961, and underwent emergency surgery.
She was a practical joker, and on one occasion pretended to be crippled and attended a faith healer revival, only to jump up and proclaim herself healed. citation Thurber had two brothers, William and Robert.
Around that time, White wrote to James Thurber that he was "about half done" with the book; however, he made little progress with it until the winter of 1944-1945.
He published at least fourteen more books, including The Thurber Carnival (1945), Thurber Country (1953), and the extremely popular account of the life of the New Yorker editor Harold Ross, The Years with Ross (1959).