3 Women Make Thurber Prize History
The 2015 nominees are Roz Chast, Annabelle Gurwitch and Julie Schumacher.
Later this month at Caroline’s Comedy Club on Broadway, an extremely noteworthy presentation will be made by Henry Alford. For the first time, a female writer will claim the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Adding oomph to the proceedings in this, the year of Amy Schumer, is the fact that all three finalists are women. That has also never happened before. Nominated for the 2015 prize are:
– New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, for her memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?;
– Los Angeles-based actress, author and writer Annabelle Gurwitch, for I
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