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Sidney Joseph Perelman (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979) was an American humorist and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker. He also wrote for several other magazines, including Judge, as well as books, scripts, and screenplays.
Aug 24, 2021 · S. J. Perelman’s reputation rose first in the nineteen-thirties, when he became famous as a comedy writer in New York and then in Hollywood, and rose still higher in the forties and...
Oscar-winning screenwriter S. J. Perelman was one of the great American humorists, a master at short fiction involving word play and satire who influenced countless American humorists, including Woody Allen.
S.J. Perelman (born Feb. 1, 1904, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 17, 1979, New York, N.Y.) was an American humorist who was a master of wordplay in books, movies, plays, and essays.
Oct 29, 2021 · Library of America: By his own account S. J. Perelman was a practitioner of a literary form, the feuilleton, that may not be familiar to a lot of readers in the twenty-first century. Can you discuss the genre of the feuilleton and describe what Perelman brings to it that’s so unique?
Oscar-winning screenwriter S. J. Perelman was one of the great American humorists, a master at short fiction involving word play and satire who influenced countless American humorists, including Woody Allen.
S. J. Perelman. , The Art of Fiction No. 31. Interviewed by George Plimpton & William Cole. Issue 30, Summer-Fall 1963. Sketch by Al Hirschfeld, 1963. S. J. Perelman has an eighty-acre farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (where the house is “shingled with second-hand wattles”), a Greenwich Village apartment, and a no-nonsense, one-room ...
Mar 7, 2010 · Influenced not only by noted humorists Ring Lardner and Robert Benchley but also by the novelist James Joyce, Perelman easily surpassed his own definition by matching an erudite wit with...
Jun 11, 2018 · 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.
Oct 18, 1979 · S. J. Perelman, the humorist and author whose penchant for wordplay, spoofery and zaniness, indulged in essays, books, plays and movies, helped to shape American humor, died yesterday morning...
