Though he reached the ripe old age of 75, S.J. Perelman never burdened his readers with anything like a magnum opus. There is no solo-penned novel in the Perelman bibliography, and though he was a ...

S.J. Perelman rightly belongs on the Mount Rushmore of American humorists. Like many writers of his day, Perelman supported himself in Hollywood—he wrote two screenplays for the Marx Brothers and won ...

ACRES AND PAINS (126 pp.)—S. J. Perelman—Reynal & Hitchcock ($2). The auctioneer’s voice boomed out the cow’s pedigree: “ZangwilPs Bijou Lass, the daughter of Throaty Contralto by that great sire ...

How many shows has S. J. Perelman written? S. J. Perelman has written 5 shows including Walk a Little Faster (Bookwriter), All Good Americans (Playwright), The Night Before Christmas (Playwright), One ...

THE DREAM DEPARTMENT—S. J. Perelman—Random House ($2). S. J. Perelman picks up business where he left off with Look Who’s Talking (TIME, Aug. 12, 1940). One passage should suffice to give traffic ...

LISTEN TO THE MOCKING BIRD (153 pp.) —S. J. Perelman—Simon & Schuster ($2.95). It was possible “in the early twenties . . . to hire the recording secretary of the Classical High School debating ...