Russell Baker, New York Times
"Possibly the shortest and most elegant autobiography ever written . . . .The Brevity Thurber achieved in My Life and Hard Times by stopping at 1918 seems almost incoceivable today when the most typical biography feels more like a bludgeon than a book"

ANNOTATION

Beloved James Thurber returns to his starting point - the delightful chaos of boyhood, family, odd dogs, and recalcitrant machinery.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In My Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature.

Author Biography: James Thurber (1894)-1961) created some thirty volumes of humor, fiction, children's books, cartoons, and essays in just about as many years. A founding member of The New Yorker staff, Thurber wrote and illustrated such enduring books as The Thurber Carnival and My Life and Hard Times, which have appeared in countless editions and dozens of languages throughout the world.

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