"The late James Thurber from Columbus, Ohio, in the course of his work as an ironic and comic genius, was as rare a thing as can be found in the United States--a stark American without a trace of corn, and a first-class sensibility without a tinge of the precious. He died within twelve months of Hemingway and Faulkner, and Thurber himself is already a figure, at once looming and modest, in the national pantheon."-- "Newsweek" "Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times" is just about the best thing I've ever read." -- Ogden Nash"Possibly the shortest and most elegant autobiography ever written." -- From the Afterword by Russell Baker "As a humorist Thurber is contemporary and timeless."--" The Spectator"