Jules Feiffer
JULES FEIFFER, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer, is the author of the plays Little Murders (Obie Award); Knock, Knock (Tony nomination); Elliot Loves; and A Bad Friend. His plays Grown-Ups (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize) and Hold Me! were both adapted for television. Mr. Feiffer's Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip ran in the Village Voice for 42 years and was the first cartoon to appear as a regular feature of The New York Times' Op-Ed page. Presently his work appears in The New Yorker, The Nation and Fortune. His screenplays include Carnal Knowledge, Little Murders, Popeye, I Want to Go Home (winner of the best screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival), and the Oscar-winning short subject animation, Munro. His first children's book (1993), The Man in the Ceiling, was selected by Publisher's Weekly and the New York Public Library, as one of the year's best. Other works for children: By the Side of the Road; I'm Not Bobby!; Bark, George; I Lost My Bear; Meanwhile...; A Barrel of Laughs; A Vale of Tears; and most recently The House Across The Street. He also illustrated Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth and Florence Parry Heide's Some Things Are Scary. Honors and awards for his children's books include an ALA Notable Children's Book, a The New York Times 10 Best Illustrated Books of the Year Award, a 1999 Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Book Award and a Best Book of the Year from both Publisher's Weekly and Booklist. Both Bark, George and I Lost My Bear are being adapted into animated cartoons and he is presently at work creating a full-length animated feature for Sony Pictures. Mr. Feiffer has been honored by exhibitions at the Library of Congress, to which he has donated many of his works, and by the New York Historical Society's recent retrospective, Julz Rulz. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild Council and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Bio as of November, 2009. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Downstage Center (audio) Jules Feiffer - October, 2010 - Listen Now. TBL - This Is Broadway (audio) Jules Feiffer - Listen Now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com) Website: www.julesfeiffer.com