S. J. Perelman Summary

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Biographies (3)

1,582 words, approx. 6 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 ... Read more
13,792 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, wher... Read more
1,364 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... Read more