Don't tread on me : the selected letters of S.J. Perelman / edited by Prudence Crowther.

New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1987.

xxvii, 372 p., [9] p. of plates : ports. ; 24 cm.

BEIN Za P4135 987D: Dust jacket. Presentation inscription to Saul Steinberg from Prudence Crowther. From the Saul Steinberg Papers.

Nominated for the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography/autobiography, this volume presents the selected letters of Perelman, ranging from 1928 to the year of his death. There are letters to T.S. Eliot, Groucho Marx, James Thurber, Raymond Chandler, Ogden Nash, Malcolm Cowley, and Paul Theroux. The letters are interesting, charming and beautifully written, but reveal a self-centered man and an indifferent parent. They include scathing comments on Malcolm Muggeridge, Dore Schary, Norman Mailer, and David Susskind; and deal obliquely with the disappointments he felt with his family, financial problems, work load, hatred of Hollywood, and bickerings with editors and publishers. ISBN 0-670-81759-7 : $19.95.

Online version: Perelman, S.J. (Sidney Joseph), 1904-1979. Don't tread on me. New York : Viking, 1987

English

June 01, 2002

Includes bibliographical references and index.