Rosemary thurber biography
Rosemary Thurber —James's only child — was born in the farmhouse in October, She was a child of reconciliation between Thurber and the.
Rosemary Thurber, daughter of James Thurber, holding a portrait of him.!
ABOUT JAMES THURBER
1894: Thurber is born on December 8 in Columbus, Ohio, on a self-described "night of wild portent." He is the second son born to Mary Fisher Thurber and Charles L.
Thurber, after older brother William and before younger brother Robert.
1902: In Washington, DC, where the family is living temporarily, Thurber is shot in the eye while playing a bow-and-arrow game with his brothers.
This causes blindness in one eye; sight in his other eye continues to fail throughout his adult life due to a condition called sympathetic ophthalmia.
1903-07: Thurber attends Sullivant Elementary School in Columbus, Ohio.
1908-09: Thurber attends Douglas Junior High School, where he writes his Class Prophecy, featuring himself as an unlikely hero in an active world (hinting perhaps at a Walter Mitty character?).
1909-13: Thurber attends East High School, is elected class president in his senior year, and graduates with honors.
1913-15: Thurber starts studies at The Ohio