Thurber
Americannoun
noun
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He is author of the essay book "I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me," published in 2022, and his 2015 bestseller “Little Victories” was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Thurber noted that Obama and Biden required their appointees to comply with an ethics pledge to avoid conflicts of interest.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2025
"Members of coral microbial communities have unique biological features that make them more adaptable and responsive to environmental change -- short generation cycles, large population sizes and diverse metabolic potential," Vega Thurber said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2023
“I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, ‘Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Several centuries of great writers—Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Austen, Thurber, Faulkner, Baldwin—have voted with their pens, and the answer is yes.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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