 | | James Thurber
James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, where so many awful things happened to him, on December 8, 1894. He was unable to keep anything on his stomach until he was seven years old but grew to be 6 feet 1 1/4 inches tall and to weigh a hundred fifty-four fully dressed for winter." He was "born in the blowy uplands of Columbus, Ohio, in a district know as 'the Flats,' which, for half of the year, was partially underwater and during the rest of the time was an outcropping of live granite, rising in dry weather to a height of two hundred feet. This condition led to moroseness, skepticism, jumping when shots were fired, membership in a silver cornet band, and, finally, a system of floating pulley-baskets by means of which the Thurber family was raised up to and lowered down from the second floor of the old family homestead.
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