S. J. Perelman (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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S. J. Perelman’s more than twenty-five books include essays, stories, plays, and an autobiography. He has also written screenplays for film and television, and he is best known for his work with the Marx Brothers on Monkey Business (1931) and Horse Feathers (1932).
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S. J. Perelman was a highly successful and well-loved humorist whose best writing appeared in The New Yorker and then was collected in popular books for five decades, from the 1930’s to the 1970’s. He wrote the book upon which the Broadway...
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