"As a humorist Thurber is contemporary and timeless." -- The Spectator

"Possibly the shortest and most elegant autobiography ever written." -- Russell Baker

"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