Research Catalog

Title

Will Cuppy, American satirist : a biography / Wes D. Gehring ; foreword by Mark H. Massé.

Author

Gehring, Wes D.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Massé, Mark H., 1952-

Description

vii, 214 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Will Cuppy (1884-1949) is dark comedy that flirts with nihilism. Whether Will Cuppy directly derails man or lesser creatures on the evolutionary chain, there is always a generous helping of dark comedy. For a biographer, the man represents a treasure trove of possibilities. "--

Subject

• Cuppy, Will, 1884-1949
• 1900-1999
• Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
• Critics > United States > Biography
• Humorists, American > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hoosier childhood, 1884-1902 -- University of Chicago years, 1902-1914 -- A wannabe playwright and his humor mentor: Isabel Paterson -- Writing how to be a hermit -- Early Greenwich Village years, Groucho Marx, and how to tell your friends from the apes -- Easing into the 1930s, and two more important friendships -- Cuppy's multifacted 1930s -- Here comes Cuppy's mystery anthologies of the 1940s -- The years leading to suicide-literally, how to become extinct, and still attract the wombat -- Enhancing a legacy by way of posthumous publications -- Afterword: Comparing Cuppy to some of his comic contemporaries.

ISBN

• 9780786469611 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786469617 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013032002

OCLC

• 817595676
• SCSB-11804716

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library