Woody Allen bibliography

The following is a list of published (and some unpublished) works by or about the American film director Woody Allen.

Books

Getting Even (1971), ISBN 0-394-47348-5
Without Feathers (1975), ISBN 0-394-49743-0
Side Effects (1980), ISBN 0-394-51104-2
The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8129-7811-7.
Mere Anarchy (2007), ISBN 978-1400066414
Apropos of Nothing (2020), New York: Arcade Publishing

Compilation

The Complete Prose of Woody Allen: Without feathers, Getting even and Side effects (1991) ^[1]

Interviews

Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman (2005)^[2]
Woody Allen: Interviews (2006) ^[3]

Chapbook

Lunatic's Tale (1986), ISBN 1-55628-001-7 (Short story previously included in Side Effects.)

The New Yorker pieces

Since 1966, Allen has written more than 38 humorous pieces for The New Yorker.^[4]

Allen, Woody (January 22, 1966). "The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (May 28, 1966). "A Little Louder, Please". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (October 8, 1966). "Yes, But Can The Steam Engine Do This?". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (April 29, 1967). "Spring Bulletin". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (March 16, 1968). "Notes from the Overfeed". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (July 27, 1968). "Death Knocks". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (May 10, 1969). "The Metterling Lists". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (December 27, 1969). "My Philosophy". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (June 20, 1970). "Hassidic Tales, With A Guide To Their Interpretation By The Noted Scholar". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (August 15, 1970). "A Look at Organized Crime". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (April 17, 1971). "The Schmeed Memoirs". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (October 7, 1972). "Examining Psychic Phenomena". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (October 28, 1972). "A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (January 13, 1973). "The Early Essays". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (November 5, 1973). "Selections From The Allen Notebooks". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (October 28, 1974). "Lovborg's Women Considered". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (December 16, 1974). "The Whore of Mensa". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (March 3, 1975). "No Kaddish For Weinstein". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (March 17, 1975). "Fine Times: An Oral Memoir". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (December 29, 1975). "Reminiscences: Places And People". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (February 23, 1976). "By Destiny Denied (Notes for an Eight-Hundred-Page Novel-The Big Hook They're All Waiting For)". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (October 18, 1976). "The Confessions of a Burglar". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (May 2, 1977). "The Kugelmass Episode". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (June 13, 1977). "The UFO Menace". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (November 21, 1977). "The Condemned". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (February 5, 1979). "Fabrizio's: Criticism and Response". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (February 25, 1980). "The Diet". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (June 9, 1980). "A Giant Step for Mankind". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (February 21, 2000). "Attention Geniuses: Cash Only". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (November 13, 2000). "On a Bad Day You Can See Forever". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (March 4, 2002). "Sing, You Sacher Tortes". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (April 14, 2003). "The Rejection". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (December 13, 2004). "Surprise Rocks Disney Trial". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (November 21, 2005). "Above the Law, Below the Box Springs". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (July 6, 2006). "Thus Ate Zarathustra". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (October 2, 2006). "Pinchuck's Law". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (May 26, 2008). "Over, Around, and Through Your Highness". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (November 10, 2008). "Think Hard, It'll Come Back to You". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (March 30, 2009). "Tails of Manhattan". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (January 10, 2010). "Udder Madness". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (May 10, 2010). "Will the Real Avatar Please Stand Up". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (January 24, 2011). "Money Can Buy Happiness-As If". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (May 28, 2012). "Not a Creature Was Stirring". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
Allen, Woody (August 5, 2013). "Now, where did I leave that oxygen tank?". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. 89 (23): 30–31. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

Plays

Don't Drink the Water: A comedy in two acts (1967), ASIN B0006BSWBW
Play It Again, Sam (1969), ISBN 0-394-40663-X
God: A comedy in one act (1975), ISBN 0-573-62201-9
The Floating Light Bulb (1981)
Three One-Act Plays: Riverside Drive / Old Saybrook / Central Park West (2003), ISBN 0-8129-7244-9
Writer's Block: Two One-Act Plays (2005), ISBN 0-573-62630-8 (includes Riverside Drive and Old Saybrook)
The one-act play Death Knocks is included in Allen's 1971 collection Getting Even.
The one-act plays God and Death are both included in Allen's 1975 collection Without Feathers.

Unpublished plays

A Second Hand Memory: A drama in two acts (2004) This drama, which opened at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company on Nov. 22, 2004, received lukewarm reviews and has never been published. It starred Michael McKean, Elizabeth Marvel, Kate Blumberg, Dominic Chianese and Beth Fowler. It was directed by the author.

Biography

Baxter, John (2000). Woody Allen: A Biography. Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7867-0807-9.
Lax, Eric (2000). Woody Allen: A Biography. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80985-9.
Meade, Marion (December 2010). The Unruly Life of Woody Allen. E-reads/E-rights. ISBN 978-1-61756-068-2.

Critical studies

Bailey, Peter (12 September 2010). The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2839-0.
Blake, Richard Aloysius (1995). Woody Allen: profane and sacred. Scarecrow Press, Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8108-2993-0.
Curry, Renée R. (1996). Perspectives on Woody Allen. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-1615-7.
Flashner, Graham (1 January 1987). Fun With Woody: The Complete Woody Allen Quiz Book. Henry Holt & Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-0519-6.
Girgus, Sam B. (18 November 2002). The Films of Woody Allen. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00929-4.
Harvey, Adam (6 March 2007). The Soundtracks of Woody Allen: A Complete Guide to the Songs and Music in Every Film, 1969-2005. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-2968-4.
King, Kimball (2001). Woody Allen: A Casebook. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-8153-3124-7.
Lee, Sander H. (1997). Woody Allen's Angst: Philosophical Commentaries on His Serious Films. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0207-6.
Navacelle, Thierry de (1987). Woody Allen on location. Morrow. ISBN 978-0-688-06643-7.
Reimertz, Stephan (2005). Woody Allen (in German). Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
Woody Allen: Conversations with Filmmakers Series, ed. R. E. Kapsis and K. Coblentz, (2006) ISBN 1-57806-793-6
Ava Cahen, Woody Allen : Profession : cynique, L'Archipel, 2015 (ISBN 978-2-8098-1757-7)
Brook, Vincent and Grinberg, Marat (Eds.): Woody on Rye. Jewishness in the films and plays of Woody Allen, Brandeis University Press, 2014
Essay by Victoria Loy on Woody Allen's career, Senseofcinema.com
Silet, Charles L.P. (27 July 2006). The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-7283-8.

References

^ Allen, Woody (1991). Complete prose. New York: Wings Books. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
^ Allen, Woody (2005). Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-4203-0.
^ Allen, Woody (2006). Woody Allen: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-793-0.
^ "Eighty-Five from the Archive: Woody Allen". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 9, 2020.

[1] Allen, Woody (1991). Complete prose. New York: Wings Books. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

[2] Allen, Woody (2005). Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-4203-0.

[3] Allen, Woody (2006). Woody Allen: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-793-0.

[4] "Eighty-Five from the Archive: Woody Allen". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 9, 2020.

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Feature films	What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) Take the Money and Run (1969) Bananas (1971) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) Sleeper (1973) Love and Death (1975) Annie Hall (1977) Interiors (1978) Manhattan (1979) Stardust Memories (1980) A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) Zelig (1983) Broadway Danny Rose (1984) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Radio Days (1987) September (1987) Another Woman (1988) New York Stories (segment "Oedipus Wrecks", 1989) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Alice (1990) Shadows and Fog (1991) Husbands and Wives (1992) Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) Bullets Over Broadway (1994) Mighty Aphrodite (1995) Everyone Says I Love You (1996) Deconstructing Harry (1997) Celebrity (1998) Sweet and Lowdown (1999) Small Time Crooks (2000) The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) Hollywood Ending (2002) Anything Else (2003) Melinda and Melinda (2004) Match Point (2005) Scoop (2006) Cassandra's Dream (2007) Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Whatever Works (2009) You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) Midnight in Paris (2011) To Rome with Love (2012) Blue Jasmine (2013) Magic in the Moonlight (2014) Irrational Man (2015) Café Society (2016) Wonder Wheel (2017) A Rainy Day in New York (2019) Rifkin's Festival (2020) Coup de chance (2023)
Short films	Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971) Sounds from a Town I Love (2001)
Television	Don't Drink the Water (1994, film) Crisis in Six Scenes (2016, series)
Theatre	From A to Z (1960) Don't Drink the Water (1966) Play It Again, Sam (1969) God (1975) Death (1975) The Floating Light Bulb (1981) Central Park West (1995) Riverside Drive (2003) Honeymoon Motel (2011) Bullets Over Broadway (2014)
Books	Getting Even (1971) Without Feathers (1975) Side Effects (1980) Mere Anarchy (2007) Apropos of Nothing (2020)
Albums	Woody Allen (1964) Woody Allen Volume 2 (1965) The Third Woody Allen Album (1968)
Related	Louise Lasser (second wife) Soon-Yi Previn (third wife) Ronan Farrow (son) Letty Aronson (sister) Inside Woody Allen Meetin' WA Wild Man Blues Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011 miniseries) Sexual abuse allegation (Allen v. Farrow, 2021 documentary) Monument (Oviedo, Spain)
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