From his perch at The New Yorker, Thurber produced the enduring short stories “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (1939) and “The Catbird Seat” (1942), as well as the memoir My Life and Hard Times (1933 ...

Television has been digging away at the antic works of Humorist James Thurber ever since the 1949 production of The Catbird Seat. Last week TV served up two hour-long helpings of Thurber.

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” James Thurber’s classic 1939 ... alongside a number of other Thurber gems — “The Catbird Seat,” “The Night the Bed Fell,” “If Grant Had Been ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Before becoming one of the great wits of the 20th century, James Thurber was a teenager ... Life of Walter Mitty" and "The Catbird Seat." He died in 1961 at age 66.