(Morsberger, "J.T." 606). Later that year he became a reporter for the New York Evening Post (606).
             The New Yorker helped establish Thurber as a creative writer and cartoonist. Thurber was a member of the New Yorker staff from February 1927 to 1933 (Gale 1805). His first piece, published on February 26, 1927, in the New Yorker was a poem called "Vinanelle of Horatio Street, Manhattan" (1804). A wide variety of pieces were eventually published in the New Yorker including poetry, parodies, fiction, non-fiction, photographs, profiles, and essays. In February 1927 he met E.B. White, with whom he later wrote Is Sex Necessary? in 1929 (Morsberger, J.T. 178). E.B. White is responsible for Thurber's drawings being published for the first time in Is Sex Necessary? (160). Thurber divorced Althea Adams on May 24, and married his second wife, Helen Muriel Wismer, on June 25, 1935 ("J. Thurber"). Between 1940 and 1941 he underwent a series of eye operations for cataracts and trachoma, but his vision was not saved (Morsberger, "J.T." 60
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