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Jules Feiffer: short biography, history, and dates

Jules Feiffer, novelist and playwright, was born in the Bronx in New York City. He was educated at the Pratt Institute and was associated with the Art Students' League.

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BIOGRAPHY

Jules Feiffer, novelist and playwright, was born in the Bronx in New York City. He was educated at the Pratt Institute and was associated with the Art Students' League. He created the comic strip, CLIFFORD, and contributed political cartoons to VILLAGE VOICE in the comic strip FEIFFER.

Feiffer published his first collection of comic strips, SICK, SICK, SICK, when he was 29. One of his plays, THE EXPLAINERS, features many of his comic strip characters. In 1961 his cartoon, MUNRO, received an Academy Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1986.

CHRONOLOGY

1929 He was born in the Bronx in New York City.

1947 He entered the Pratt Institute.

1949 He created the comic strip CLIFFORD.

1958 SICK, SICK, SICK

1960 PASSIONELLA AND OTHER STORIES

1961 THE EXPLAINERS; CRAWLING ARNOLD; He won an Academy Award for MUNRO.

1962 BOY, GIRL, BOY, GIRL

1963 FEIFFER'S ALBUM; HARRY THE RAT WITH WOMEN

1965 THE GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES

1967 FEIFFER ON CIVIL RIGHTS

1968 LITTLE MURDERS

1969 FEIFFER'S PEOPLE

1971 CARNAL KNOWLEDGE

1976 KNOCK, KNOCK

1977 ACKROYD

1980 POPEY

1982 JULES FEIFFER'S AMERICA, FROM EISENHOWER TO REAGAN

1986 He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.

1988 THE PHANTOM TOLLOBOTH

1989 THE COLLECTED WORKS, vol. 1-2

1990 THE COLLECTED WORKS, vol. 3; ELIOT LOVES

1993 THE MAN IN THE CEILING; FEIFFER'S FOLIES

1995 A BARREL OF LAUGHS, A VALE OF TEARS

1996 SELECTED FROM CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYS

1997 MEANWHILE; TANTRUM; THE BOY FROM MARS; SLAVE OF SPIEGEL; THE SNARKOUT BOYS; THE AVOCADO OF DEATH; LAST GURU

1998 I LOST MY BEAR



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