In a short story by this author, a wife is sent to the "booby hatch" after telling the authorities that her husband claimed to have seen the title animal.
In a short story by this author, a wife is sent to the "booby hatch" after telling the authorities that her husband claimed to have seen the title animal. A character created by this author remains "inscrutable to the last." A story by this writer features the repeated noise "pocketa-pocketa-pocketa," during a sequence in which "The Commander" and "Lieutenant Berg" pilot a Navy (*) hydroplane. This author included his story "The Unicorn in the Garden" in the collection Fables for Our Time. The New Yorker first ran one of this writer's stories in which the title character imagines testifying in court, performing a surgery, and facing a firing squad as he waits for his wife to return from a drug store. For 10 points, name this author of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."
In a short story by this author, a wife is sent to the "booby hatch" after telling the authorities that her husband claimed to have seen the title animal.
James Thurber [James Grover Thurber]