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A Short Biography of Will Cuppy

Author Name:

Will Cuppy

Born As:

William Jacob Cuppy

Other Names:

Born:

23 Aug 1884

Died:

19 Sep 1949




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Humorist and journalist                          
Selected Works:  

Books:

How to Get from January to December - 1951.  Illustrations by John Ruge.
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody - 1950. Illustrations by William Steig.
How to Attract the Wombat - 1949.
The Great Bustard and Other People - containing How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct- 1944.
How to Become Extinct - 1941. Illustrations by William Steig. How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes - 1931.  Introduction by P. G. Wodehouse. Illustrations by "Jacks."
How to Be a Hermit - 1929.

Books edited:

Murder Without Tears: An Anthology of Crime - 1946.
World's Great Detective Stories: American and English Masterpieces - 1943.
World's Great Mystery Stories: American and English Masterpieces - 1943.

Book contributed footnotes:

Garden Rubbish and Other Country Bumps by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman; with footnotes by Will Cuppy. - 1937.

Book containing articles by Will Cuppy:
The Home Book of Laughter May Lamberton Becker- 1948.

M.A. thesis completed at the University of Chicago
- 1914. The Elizabethan Conception of Prose Style.                          
Mother Frances Stahl Cuppy 
Father Thomas Jefferson Cuppy