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S. J. Perelman | | Birth Date: |
February 1, 1904 | | Death Date: |
October 17, 1979 | | Place of Birth: |
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New York, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
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Biography of S(idney) J(oseph) Perelman
1,377 words, approx. 5 pages
 Sidney Joseph Perelman was born in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant Joseph and Sophia Perelman. When Perelman was still a child his family moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where his father worked as a machinist, a dry goods merchant, and a would-be...
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Biography of S(idney) J(oseph) Perelman
13,768 words, approx. 46 pages
 S. J. (Sidney Joseph) Perelman was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 1 February 1904 to a father who had immigrated to the United States twelve years earlier. He grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, where, as he told New York Times Magazine interviewer...
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Biography of S. J. Perelman
1,584 words, approx. 5 pages
 S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) was probably the funniest American writer of the 20th century. He was a master of word-play and a cultural parodist without equal. S. J. Perelman was once described in these graphic terms: Under a forehead roughly comparable...



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S. J. Perelman Quotes
758 words, approx. 3 pages
 Sidney Joseph Perelman ( 1904-02-01 – 1979-10-17 ) was an American humorist and writer for the stage and screen. His sketches for The New Yorker are considered classics of their kind. He co-wrote the screenplays for the Marx Brothers ' Monkey...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Perelman, S(Idney) J(Oseph)
92 words, approx. 1 pages (born Feb. 1, 1904, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 17, 1979, New York, N.Y.) U.S. humorist. Perelman attended Brown University and soon began writing screenplays for early Marx Brothers films such as Monkey Business (1931) and Horse Feathers...
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S. J. Perelman Information
1,216 words, approx. 4 pages
 Sidney Joseph Perelman, almost always known as S. J. Perelman (February 1 1904 – October 17 1979), was an American humorist, author, and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker; he...



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 Studies in Short Fiction
S.J. Perelman: Critical Essays. (book reviews)
03/22/1993: 495 words, approx. 2 pages S. J. Perelman: Critical Essays, the first volume of a new series entitled "Studies in Humor," is a commendable beginning, but it may not sustain editor Steven H. Gale's belief that Perelman belongs among such "major humorists" as Geoffrey Chaucer and Mark Twain...
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 The New York Observer
Into the Woody
6/19/2007: 553 words, approx. 2 pages MERE ANARCHYBy Woody Allen Random House, 160 pages, $21.95 THE INSANITY DEFENSE: THE COMPLETE PROSE By Woody Allen Random House, 342 pages, $15.95 Like every other kind of writer, humorists go in and out of fashion. Nobody seems to read Stephen Leacock anymore,...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Norris W. Yates
6,965 words, approx. 23 pages
 In the following essay, Yates characterizes Perelman's fictional narrators—types of the literary Little Man—as "sane psychotics."
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