Full appreciation has never been given to the genius of James Thurber, one America's most acclaimed humorists and a shaping force of the New Yorker in its first decades. Alan Vanneman provides a thorough review of Thurber's work, giving special consideration to Thurber's "serious" articles and stories, which run the gamut from touching to nightmarish. Vanneman also includes a short collection of essays on Thurber's fellow New Yorker writers...