Who is / was Walter Mitty anyway?

[dave_in_cw]

Please forgive my ignorance. I'm not from here.

[j2buttonsw]

He was the main character of the 1947 film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" starring Danny Kaye as a chap who had a unremarkable real life but a very vivid fantasy one.

[sylvday]

The 1947 movie was adapted from a 1941 short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber. You can read an extract from the story at http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_st
ory&story_id=100