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Backing into forward a memoir

The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Feiffer, Jules
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2010.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Feiffer, Jules. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. Cartoonists > Biography.
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Summary:	The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts
Physical Description:	440 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:	9780385531580 (alk. paper) 0385531583 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:	Jules Feiffer was born on January 26, 1929. While working as a cartoonist, his work appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, The Nation, and The New York Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice in 1986. His other awards include a George Polk Award for his cartoons; an Obie Award for the play Little Murders; an Oscar for the anti-military short subject animation, Munro; and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Writers Guild of America and the National Cartoonist Society. He is currently focusing on writing and illustrating books for children and young adults including The Man in the Ceiling, A Room with a Zoo and Bark, George! He has been a professor at the Yale School of Drama, Northwestern University, Dartmouth, and Stony Brook Southampton College. Feiffer has been honored with major retrospectives at the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress and The School of Visual Arts. (Bowker Author Biography)