Another story by him ends with a man getting his wife committed in his place by telling the asylum workers she lied about him reporting a unicorn in the garden.
In one story by this author, an elderly mugging victim runs into a blight-stricken park, where the bare tree branches give him a perfect view of the bombers overhead. One of this author's characters takes over an operation from Dr. Renshaw when coreopsis sets in. In a children's book by this author, Andrea and Andreus rebel against Black and Littlejack after they arrive on an island aboard the Aeiu and impose a lipogrammatic regime by shortening words and banning objects containing a hated (*) letter. Another story by him ends with a man getting his wife committed in his place by telling the asylum workers she lied about him reporting a unicorn in the garden. After being mocked on a shopping trip for saying "puppy biscuit," one of his characters waits for his wife at the hairdresser by imagining he is a soldier. For 10 points, name this comic author of Fables for Our Time, The Wonderful O and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."
In one story by this author, an elderly mugging victim runs into a blight-stricken park, where the bare tree branches give him a perfect view of the bombers overhead.
James Grover Thurber