Thurber, (-)A friend of Pickman and Eliot. He was with Eliot in France in WWI. He was a "hard-boiled author (and wrote a monograph on weird art) and a member of the Boston art club Pickman, Reid, Minot, and Bosworth belonged to. He was the last person to see Pickman alive in this world and the narrator of story.
[Pickman's Model - H.P.L.]