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<\/a>s probably “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” which was distorted into a film that Thurber detested. Almost everything he did was for print, most of it in The New Yorker<\/i>. There were exceptions. He wrote the hit play The Male Animal<\/i>, appeared on stage in an adaptation of his stories called A Thurber Carnival<\/i>, and collaborated with the composer David Raksin on an animated version of The Unicorn in the Garden<\/em>, the most famous of more than 75 fables Thurber wrote. The fables inevitably ended with punch lines that served as morals.