As the only literary center in the country to offer comprehensive literary programming for adults and children, Thurber House is a unique national treasure.
Thurber House is also a historic house museum that has been restored for the period when the Thurber family lived there from 1913 to 1917.
The award, given each year by the Thurber House for an outstanding contribution to American prose humor, is the only recognition of its kind.
The Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio, is just one of several houses the Thurber family occupied at various times in that city.
The Thurber House has a typewriter that might have been his, though Donn Vickers, the director, allows it might not.
The award, established this year, is administered by the Thurber House, in Columbus, Ohio, the restored home of James Thurber.
The prize is given out by the Thurber House.
In 1983, he became the literary director of the Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio.
The Thurber House has established a writer-in-residence program, which will support a non-fiction writer in its inaugural year.
In 2007, Yee was chosen as the writer-in-residence at Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio.