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Bennett Cerf

Born: 25 May 1898

Died: 27 August 1971

A publisher and co-founder of Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns.

Born: 25 May 1898

Died: 27 August 1971

Books by Bennett Cerf (50 max)

24 favorite one-act plays

1958

Thirty famous one act plays

1943

Sixteen famous British plays

1942

Bennett Cerf, Noël Coward, William Somerset Maugham, A. A. Milne, William Archer undifferentiated, Laurence Housman, J. M. Barrie, Sutton Vane

Sixteen famous American plays

1941

Try and Stop me: A Collection of Anecdotes and Stories, Mostly Humorous

1944

Famous Ghost Stories

1944

Great modern short stories: an anthology of twelve famous stories and novelettes

1942

Sixteen famous European plays

1943

S.R.O.: the most successful plays in the history of the American stage

1944

An anthology of famous British stories

1940

Bennett Cerf, Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle

Fifteen famous European plays

1943

good for a laugh

1952

An encyclopedia of modern American humor.

1954

The Laugh's on Me: 2000 Stories, Anecdotes, and Amiable Observations, Conveniently Arranged for Retelling, in 100 Categories; A Brand-New Collection by America's Number-One Raconteur

1959

Book of riddles.

1962

Sixteen famous European plays,

1943

Laughter Incorporated

1950

Bennett Cerf's bumper crop of anecdotes and stories: mostly humorous, about the famous and near famous

1952

A treasury of humor, and Toastmaster's handbook

1955

Marjorie Barrows, Mathilda Schirmer, Bennett Cerf

The life of the party: a new collection of stories and anecdotes.

1956

Reading for pleasure

1957

Six American plays for today.

1961

More riddles.

1961

Riddle-de-dee: 458, count them, 458 riddles old and new, for children from 12 to 112.

1962

Book of animal riddles.

1965

Laugh day: a new treasury of over 1000 humorous stories and anecdotes

1965

Plays of our time

1967

At Random: the reminiscences of Bennett Cerf.

1977

Three famous murder novels

1941

Bennett Cerf, E. C. Bentley, A. E. W. Mason, Anthony Berkeley

Sixteen famous American plays

1941

Sixteen Famous American Plays

1942

Bennett Cerf, Van Henry Cartmell

great modern SHORT STORIES

1942

Sixteen Famous European Plays

1943

Try and Stop Me a Collection of Ancedotes and Stories, Mostly Humorous

1944

Try and stop me a collection of anecdotes and stories, mostly humorous

1944

Bennett Cerf, Carl Rose

Three famous murder novels

1945

Laughing stock

1945

Laughing stock: over six-hundred jokes and anecdotes of uncertain vintage

1945

Anything for a laugh: a collection of jokes and anecdotes that you, too, can tell and probably have

1946

Famous Plays of Crime and Detection: From Sherlock Holmes to Angel Street

1946

Van Henry Cartmell, Bennett Cerf, William Gillette, Bayard Veiller, G.M. Cohan, Elmer Rice, R.C. Megrue, Willard, John, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, Philip Dunning, Abbott, George, Jeffrey Dell, Edward Chodorov, Emlyn Williams, Patrick Hamilton

Shake Well Before Using.

1948

Shake Well Before Using

1948

Laughter incorporated: the cream of the recent crop of stories and anecdotes, harvested, assorted, and prepared for market.

1950

Good for a laugh: a new collection of humorous tidbits and anecdotes from aardvark to zythum

1952

Good for a Laugh

1953

Laughter Incorporated The cream of the recent crop of stories and anecdotes, ha

1954

The Life of the Party

1956

LIFE OF THE PARTY A New Collection of Ancedotes, Fables, Tidbits, Puns, Yarns and Short Tall Tales

1956

24 FAVORITE ONE-ACT PLAYS

1958

Bennett Cerf, Van Henry Cartmell

An Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor (Modern Library Giant, 37.2)

1958