# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-thurber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:34:48.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-thurber"
name: "James Thurber"
slug: "james-thurber"
description: "James Grover Thurber was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University (OSU), leaving in 1918 without graduating. He spent over a year in Paris, working for the US State Department as a code clerk, and on his return to Columbus in 1920 was hired as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch. He married his first wife, Althea Adams, in 1922. Thurber was hired by The New Yorker in early 1927, and soon became a prolific and popular contributor."
tagline: "American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright (1894–1961)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1894-12-08"
deathDate: "1961-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump