Lenny Bruce - Books By or About Bruce

Books By or About Bruce

  • Bruce, Lenny. Stamp Help Out! (Self-Published pamphlet, 1962)
  • Bruce, Lenny. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (Playboy Publishing, 1967)

By others:

  • Barry, Julian. Lenny (play) (Grove Press, Inc. 1971)
  • Bruce, Honey. Honey: The Life and Loves of Lenny's Shady Lady (Playboy Press, 1976, with Dana Benenson)
  • Bruce, Kitty. The (almost) Unpublished Lenny Bruce (1984, Running Press) (includes a graphically spruced up reproduction of 'Stamp Help Out!')
  • Cohen, John, ed., compiler. The Essential Lenny Bruce (Ballantine Books, 1967)
  • Collins, Ronald and David Skover, The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall & Rise of an American Icon (Sourcebooks, 2002)
  • DeLillo, Don. Underworld, (Simon and Schuster Inc., 1997)
  • Denton, Bradley. The Calvin Coolidge Home For Dead Comedians, an award-winning collection of science fiction stories in which the title story has Lenny Bruce as one of the two protagonists.
  • Goldman, Albert, with Lawrence Schiller. Ladies and Gentlemen—Lenny Bruce!! (Random House, 1974)
  • Josepher, Brian. What the Psychic Saw (Sterlinghouse Publisher, 2005)
  • Kofsky, Frank. Lenny Bruce: The Comedian as Social Critic & Secular Moralist (Monad Press, 1974)
  • Kringas, Damian. Lenny Bruce: 13 Days In Sydney (Independence Jones Guerilla Press, Sydney, 2010) A study of Bruce's ill-fated September 1962 tour down under.
  • Marciniak, Vwadek P., Politics, Humor and the Counterculture: Laughter in the Age of Decay (New York etc., Peter Lang, 2008).
  • Smith, Valerie Kohler. Lenny (novelization based on the Barry-scripted/Fosse-directed film) (Grove Press, Inc., 1974)
  • Thomas, William Karl. Lenny Bruce: The Making of a Prophet (first printing, Archon Books, 1989; second printing, Media Maestro, 2002; Japanese edition, DHC Corp. Tokyo, 2001)

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