Thurberville
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION: Columbus as Thurberville
FAMILY MATTERS: The Fishers and the Thurbers
CHAPTER 1. The Original Thurber House
CHAPTER 2. A Good Man Victimized by Humor
CHAPTER 3. The Funniest Thurber
CHAPTER 4. Aunt Pharmacy
CHAPTER 5. The Man Thrower
CHAPTER 6. Showing His Fisher
CHAPTER 7. Mother Katherine
CHAPTER 8. A Frontiersman in the Family
CHAPTER 9. Sugar Grove Days
CHAPTER 10. The Real Walter Mitty
CHAPTER 11. The Star-Crossed Thurber
CHILDHOOD MATTERS: Homes, Haunts, Honeys, and Hangouts
CHAPTER 12. The Edge of Civilization
CHAPTER 13. The Great, Dark House on Bryden Road
CHAPTER 14. The Clock in Thurber’s Dreams
CHAPTER 15. Fighting for an Education
CHAPTER 16. Parking Lot of Dreams
CHAPTER 17. The One Girl
CHAPTER 18. Scorpions, Spiders, and Boas— Oh, My!
CHAPTER 19. The Dam That Didn’t Break
CHAPTER 20. Wool-Stocking School
CHAPTER 21. The House the Ghost Got In
UNIVERSITY MATTERS: Making It Through the Minefield
CHAPTER 22. Dear Old Nugey
CHAPTER 23. Captain Coldheart
CHAPTER 24. The Girl Who “Discovered” Thurber
CHAPTER 25. Thurber’s Favorite Player
CHAPTER 26. Literary Tour Guide
CHAPTER 27. Professor Courageous
CHAPTER 28. “Gentle, Lovable Billy Graves”
CHAPTER 29. A Place Not to Call Home
LITERARY MATTERS: Inspiration and Incubation in Thurberville
CHAPTER 30. The Mystery of the Missing Manuscripts
CHAPTER 31. A Paragrapher for the Ages
CHAPTER 32. The News Was Served Here
CHAPTER 33. An Ink-Stained Dinosaur
CHAPTER 34. Breakfast at Marzetti’s
CHAPTER 35. “It’s McNulty”
CHAPTER 36. Janitor of the Passing Show
CHAPTER 37. From the ’Hood to Hollywood
CHAPTER 38. The Boy Thurber Put in Hysterics
LATER MATTERS: Going Away and Coming Home
CHAPTER 39. Shooter of the Stars
CHAPTER 40. His Real-Life “Thurber Woman”
CHAPTER 41. Married in History
CHAPTER 42. Thurber’s “Closest” Friend
CHAPTER 43. The Hotel That Aged with Thurber
CHAPTER 44. Mame Slept Here
CHAPTER 45. The Wonderful Gs
CHAPTER 46. Bookends of a Stage Career
CHAPTER 47. The Neighborhood Kid Who “Collected” Thurber
CHAPTER 48. The Last Flower
Doc Marlowe
Julius Ziegfeld
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Douglas School
Olentangy Park
Una Soderblom
John Hance
Miss Naddy’s Dancing Academy
Reverend Karl W. Scheufler
George Karb
Park Hotel
Norwich Hotel
Guy Harold “Hal” Cooley
Alfred Barron Callen
Ludwig Lewisohn
John C. Harlor
Ed Morris
Ralph L. McCombs
Johnny Jones
James Theater
Notes to Chapter 1
Notes to Chapter 3
Notes to Chapter 6
Notes to Chapter 9
Notes to Chapter 11
Notes to Chapter 13
Notes to Chapter 17
Notes to Chapter 20
Notes to Chapter 22
Notes to Chapter 25
Notes to Chapter 28
Notes to Chapter 31
Notes to Chapter 33
Notes to Chapter 36
Notes to Chapter 39
Notes to Chapter 42
Notes to Chapter 46
Notes to the Appendix
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX