James Thurber: 1894-1961
While playing a game of William Tell, his brother William shot him in the eye with an arrow. Because of the lack of medical technology, he lost his eye.
From 1913 to 1918, Thurber attended The Ohio State University. He never graduated from the University because his poor eyesight prevented him from taking a mandatory course.
From 1918 to 1920, at the close of World War I, Thurber worked as a code clerk for the Department of State, first in Washington, D.C. and then in Paris. After this he returned to Columbus, where he began his writing career as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch from 1921 to 1924.
In 1925, he moved to Greenwich Village in New York City, getting a job as a reporter for the New York Evening Post. Many of his short stories are humorous fictional memoirs from his life, but he also wrote darker material. "The Dog Who Bit People" and "The Night the Bed Fell" are his most well known short stories.
Thurber was married twice. His second marriage lasted until he died in 1961, at the age of 66.