Following the sale, the New Yorker’s founder, Harold Ross, offered Thurber a position on the magazine staff. Like most young authors, he suffered the disappointment of multiple rejections, but eventually his work and tenacity ended with the sale of his short story “An American Romance” to the discriminating magazine in 1927. The unknown Thurber began sending his stories and humorous essays to a new and equally unknown magazine in the city, the New Yorker.
Through his imagination, a man leaves behind his humdrum life for the road to high adventure.Įvents in History at the Time of the Short Storyīorn in Columbus, Ohio, James Thurber (1894-1961) moved to New York in 1926, where he worked as a reporter, writer, editor, and cartoonist.
A short story set in a suburban Connecticut town during the mid- to late 1930s published in 1939.
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