Books by S.J. Perleman

Sidney Joseph Perelman (1904-1979) was born into a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn. He grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and attended Brown University in 1922 where he became the cartoonist of the college magazine and finally its editor. After publishing his first two books he was invited to Hollywood by Groucho Marx to script two films: Monkey Business and Horse Feathers. A contributor to the New Yorker from 1935, he soon became the magazine's most successful humorist.