This writer apologized for not following Ford Madox Ford's dictum regarding memoirs in My Life and Hard Times. He wrote of a non-smoker buying a pack of cigarettes as part of a plan to kill Mrs. Ulgine [OOL-jeen] Barrows in "The Catbird Seat." In another story, this author wrote of a character who refused to see Dr. Renshaw, whom that character then imagines referring a patient to him. That same character later imagines himself facing a firing squad. Name this author of 
This writer apologized for not following Ford Madox Ford's dictum regarding memoirs in My Life and Hard Times. He wrote of a non-smoker buying a pack of cigarettes as part of a plan to kill Mrs. Ulgine [OOL-jeen] Barrows in "The Catbird Seat." In another story, this author wrote of a character who refused to see Dr. Renshaw, whom that character then imagines referring a patient to him. That same character later imagines himself facing a firing squad. Name this author of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."
This writer apologized for not following Ford Madox Ford's dictum regarding memoirs in My Life and Hard Times.
James Thurber