S.J. Perelman: A Life

By Dorothy Herrmann

Book Overview

This is a biography of S.J.Perelman, an American wit and sardonic humourist who won international acclaim as a writer for the "New Yorker" and as a contributor to the Marx brothers' "Animal Crackers"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671641999
• ISBN13: 9780671641993
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Fireside
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.

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