James Thurber

James Thurber (1894–1961) was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, and went to Ohio State before joining The New Yorker in 1927, where he spent most of his career as a writer and cartoonist. He's best known for "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the Columbus memoir My Life and Hard Times, and his drawings of dogs, women and baffled men. He wrote this first book with his New Yorker colleague E. B. White, later the author of Charlotte's Web.