文档介绍：Max Shulman-马克斯舒尔曼
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Max Shulman was one of America’s best-known humorists. He was a writer of many talentMax Shulman-马克斯舒尔曼
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Max Shulman was one of America’s best-known humorists. He was a writer of many talents—He wrote novels, stories, Broadway plays (百老汇戏剧 ), movie screenplays, and television scripts.
March 14, 1919–August 28, 1988
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Writing Style
His writing was often focused on young people, particularly in collegiate setting.
A master of the outrageous pun and verbal caricature.
Topics range from young love to garbage disposal were grist for Shulman’s wit.
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Personal Details
At the University of Minnesota
Barefoot Boy With Cheek
In the US Army Air Corps
The Feather Merchants
After returning to civilian life
Shulman became a full-time writer with a large quantity of novels, short stories, screenplays and television scripts over the next four decades.
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Dobie Gillis
Shulman’s collegiate character, Dobie Gillis, was the subject of a series of short stories compiled under the title The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which became the basis for the 1953 movie The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, followed by a CBS television series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959-1963).
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Dobie Gillis is significant as the first American television program produced for a major network to feature teenagers as