Background
Shulman, Max was born on March 14, 1919 in St. Paul. Son of Abraham and Bessie (Karchmer) Shulman.
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This book has a bone to pick with you -- a funny bone. It is the story of a sergeant by a sergeant, all about said sergeant's adventures on the damnedest front of the war -- the home front! In case you didn't know, "Feather Merchants" is G.I. slang for civilians. Shulman, America's bright new apostle of zany, used to be a feather merchant himself, which makes him the perfect author for this roaring, good-natured travesty. It shouldn't happen to us civilians, but it has, and you had better read it "on account of the duration" as one of Shulman's characters describes the fix we're in. Behold the tale: As he leaves the peace and security of the air base, Sgt. Dan Miller is just a happy soldier going home on furlough. But he is ambushed by an advance patrol of feather merchants as he gets off the train in Minneapolis. They drive him home on black-market gas, gorge him on hoarded food, sir him down at a suspiciously new deluxe radio to hear the omniscient A. K. Hockfleisch's war-news broadcast. But the block-buster that completely shatters his illusions about the privations of his people comes from the most desirable feather merchant of them all, lovely Estherlee McCracken. She says that Sgt. Dan is a desk soldier and the hell with him. Buy bonds. Stung by his girl's rebuff, bewildered by the abundance of transportation and victuals in a world of (supposedly) no gas, no tires, no butter, and no steaks, Dan goes to the Sty to drown his sorrows in the watered whiskey and fabulous floor show offered in that charming establishment. But it is his undoing, for there he gets himself rumored into the role of a hero -- with explosive results. THE FEATHER MERCHANTS is the first book about civilians by a soldier, and maybe we had it coming to us. Only Shulman could have written it, only those with a wide-open sense of humor ought to read it, and only William Crawford could have drawn...
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Shulman, Max was born on March 14, 1919 in St. Paul. Son of Abraham and Bessie (Karchmer) Shulman.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Minnesota, 1942.
Early life and career Shulman "s earliest published writing was for Ski-U-Mah, the college humor magazine of the University of Minnesota, in the 1930s. His writing often focused on young people, particularly in a collegiate setting. In 1943 he wrote his first novel, Barefoot Boy with Cheek, a satire on college life, while still a student.
Later career Shulman"s works include the novels, which was made into a film starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.
The Feather Merchants. The Zebra Derby; Sleep till Noon.
And Potatoes are Cheaper. In 1954 he co-wrote (with Robert Paul Smith) the Broadway play The Tender Trap starring Robert Preston, which was later adapted into a movie starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds.
He wrote the libretto for the 1968 musical How Now, Dow Jones, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical.
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 Columbia Broadcasting System television series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959-1963). Shulman was a script writer for the series and also wrote the series" theme song. The same year the series began, Shulman published a Dobie Gillis novel.
After his initial success with Dobie Gillis in the early 1950s, Shulman syndicated a humor column, "On Campus", to over 350 collegiate newspapers at one point.
A later novel,, satirized both the television and tobacco industries (which was ironic as his "On Campus" column was sponsored by a cigarette company), as well as the South and college football. His last major project was House Calls, which began as a 1978 movie based on one of his stories, and starred Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson.
lieutenant spun off the 1979-1982 television series of the same name, starring Wayne Rogers and Lynn Redgrave in the leads. Shulman was the head writer
Shulman was one of the collaborators on a 1954 non-fiction television program Light"s Diamond Jubilee, timed to the 75th anniversary of the invention of the light bulb.
Max Shulman died August 28, 1988, of bone cancer at the age of 69 in Los Angeles, California.
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(Illustrated in black-and-white line drawings.)
(Potatoes Are Cheaper by Shulman, Max)
(TV tie-in vintage paperback)
(1946 Doubleday and Co. Hardcover. No dust jacket.)
(Vintage Paperback.)
(Vintage paperback)
(Dime Store Novel.)
(A book of humor. 191 pages.)
(paperback)
Served with United States Army Air Force, 1942-1944. Member Authors Guild, Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild American.
Married Carol Rees, December 21, 1941 (deceased 1963). Children— Daniel, Max, Peter, Martha. Married Mary G. Bryant, 1964.