It was followed by How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes in 1931, How to Become Extinct in 1941, and How to Attract the Wombat in 1949. It became an immediate best-seller when it appeared and went through six printings in four months. That book grew out of Cuppy’s experience keeping house for himself (he never married) in a shack on New York’s Jones Island. In the 1940s he was the editor of three collections of stories in the crime and mystery genre.īut his finest works were his books of satirical essays and stories about nature and historical figures, starting with How to Be a Hermit in 1929. He published articles in the New Yorker, wrote the “Mystery and Adventure” review column for the New York Herald-Tribune, and also wrote for the Saturday Evening Post. And although a very private, even reclusive individual, he was well-known and respected in the literary world of his day. Not as familiar or as widely read today as he should be, Cuppy was a very popular essayist and reviewer during his lifetime. Tomorrow is the 59th anniversary of the death of the great American satirist Will Cuppy.
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