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Feiffer, Jules (Jules Ralph), 1929-

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Feiffer, Jules (American cartoonist, playwright, and filmmaker, born 1929)

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ファイファー, ジュールズ

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פיפר, ז׳ול. עזוז רחל

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Feiffer, Jules Ralph 1929-

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Jules Ralph Feiffer

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Jules Feiffer was born January 26, 1929 in the Bronx, NY. He attended Art Student's League and Pratt Institute. He is married with two daughters. He is a play writer, cartoonist and satirist. His cartoons have appeared in the Village Voice>, New York City, Observer>, London and others. His cartoons are syndicated and distributed to more than one hundred newspapers in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the faculty of Yale University Drama School. Mr. Feiffer has won numberous awards and honors, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for editorial cartooning. 1993 marked his official debut as a children's author with the publication of The Man in the Ceiling> . His books for children have been highly acclaimed by reviewers because of the feelings evoked and his minimalism and eloquence in words and drawing. Biographical Source: Something About The Author>, vol. 111, p. 45-50

From the guide to the Jules Feiffer Papers, 1961, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc])

American playwright, cartoonist, author, and illustrator Jules Feiffer was named the most promising playwright by the New York Drama Critics in 1966-1967 for his play, Little Murders .

Born on January 26, 1929, in the Bronx, New York, Feiffer has written over twenty plays and several novels; he has also created numerous books of cartoons and illustrated children's books. For decades Feiffer created a syndicated comic strip and contributed cartoons to the Village Voice (1956-1997), The London Observer (1958-1666, 1972-2000), and Playboy .

Jules Feiffer has won a Pulitzer Prize (1986) for editorial cartooning; an Obie for his plays; an Academy Award for the animation of his cartoon satire, Munro (1961); and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Writers Guild of America (2007) and the National Cartoonist Society (2003).

"Jules Feiffer." Contemporary Authors Online. (reproduced in Gale Biography In Context). http://ic.galegroup.com (accessed July 2011). "Jules Feiffer." http://www.julesfeiffer.com (accessed July 2011).

From the guide to the Little Murders : second draft screenplay, 1970 May 25, (University of Delaware Library - Special Collections)

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1929, Jan. 26 Born, New York, N.Y. 1946 Attended Art Students League, New York, N.Y. 1946 1951 Assistant to cartoonist Will Eisner for comic book “The Spirit” 1947 1951 Attended Pratt Institute Art School, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1949 1951 Syndicated cartoon strip, “Clifford” 1951 1953 United States Army, Signal Corps; worked in cartoon animation unit 1953 1956 Held various positions in the art field, including producer of slide films, writer for CBS Films, Inc. “Terrytoons,” and designer of booklets 1956 1997 Published cartoon strip in the Village Voice originally entitled “Sick, Sick, Sick,” soon changed to “Feiffer” 1957 Published Passionella and Other Stories (New York: McGraw Hill. 190 pp.) 1958 Published Sick, Sick, Sick (New York: McGraw Hill. 130 pp.) Illustrated My Mind Went All to Pieces by Robert Mines (New York: Dial Press. 93 pp.) 1959 Began syndicating his cartoon strip, “Feiffer” Published The Unexpurgated Memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler (New York: Random House. 85 pp.) 1960 Published The Explainers (New York: McGraw Hill. 120 pp.) 1961 Married Judith Sheftel (divorced 1983) Published Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl (New York: Random House. 120 pp.) Illustrated The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster (New York: Epstein & Carroll. 256 pp.) Recipient, George Polk Memorial Award 1963 Published Harry, the Rat with Women (New York: McGraw Hill. 181 pp.),Hold Me! (New York: Random House. unpaged.), Feiffer's Album (New York: Random House. 132 pp.) , and Crawling Arnold (New York : Dramatists Play Service. 23 pp.) 1965 Published Great Comic Book Heroes (New York: Dial Press. 189 pp.) 1966 Published The Penguin Feiffer (Harmondworth, U.K.: Penguin. [121] pp.) 1967 Published Feiffer's Marriage Manual (New York: Random House. 60 pp.) 1968 Published Little Murders (New York: Random House. 113 pp.) 1970 Published The White House Murder Case: A Play in Two Acts & Dick and Jane: A One-Act Play (New York: Grove Press. 122 pp.) 1971 Published Carnal Knowledge: A Screenplay (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 117 pp.) 1973 1974 Taught at Yale Drama School, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1974 Published Feiffer on Nixon: The Cartoon Presidency (New York: Random House. 64 pp.) 1976 Published Knock, Knock: A Play (New York: Hill and Wang. 120 pp.) 1977 Published Ackroyd: A Novel (New York: Simon and Schuster. 349 pp.) and Hold Me! An Entertainment (New York: Dramatists Play Service. 52 pp.) 1979 Published Tantrum: A Novel in Cartoons (New York: Knopf. 183 pp.) 1982 Published Jules Feiffer's America: From Eisenhower to Reagan, edited by Steven Heller (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 254 pp.), and Grown Ups: A Play (New York: Samuel French. 92 pp.) 1983 Married Jennifer Allen 1984 Published Marriage Is an Invasion of Privacy, and Other Dangerous Views(Kansas City, Kan.: Andrews, McMeel & Parker. 128 pp.) 1986 Received Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons, a lifetime achievement award 1988 Published Ronald Reagan in Movie America (Kansas City, Kan.: Andrews, McMeel & Parker. 128 pp.) 1990 Published Elliot Loves: A Play (New York: Grove Press. 82 pp.) 1993 Published The Man in the Ceiling (New York: HarperCollins. 185 pp.) 1995 Published A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears (New York: HarperCollins. 180 pp.) 1997 Published Meanwhile (New York: HarperCollins. 30 pp.) 1998 Published I Lost My Bear (New York : Morrow Junior Books. circa 40 pp.) 1999 Pulished Bark, George (New York: HarperCollins. 30 pp.) From the guide to the Jules Feiffer Papers, 1919-1995, (bulk 1950-1990), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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