Steve Allen

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was a musician, comedian and writer, who was instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show. Allen is called the Father of TV Talk Shows.

Books

• Bop Fables (1955)
• Fourteen for Tonight (1955)
• Short story collection
• The Funny Men (1956)
• Wry on the Rocks (1956)
• Poetry
• The Girls on the Tenth Floor and Other Stories (1958)
• 1970 printing: ISBN 0836936086
• The Question Man... (1959)
• Mark It and Strike It: An Autobiography (1960)
• Not All of Your Laughter, Not All of Your Tears (1962)
• Dialogues in Americanism (1964)
• with L. Brent Bozell, William F. Buckley, Jr., Robert M. Hutchins, James MacGregor Burns, and Willmoore Kendall
• Letter to a Conservative (1965)
• The Ground is Our Table (1966)
• Bigger Than A Breadbox (1967)
• The Flash of Swallows (1969)
• The Wake (1972)
• ISBN 0385076088
• Princess Snip-Snip and the Puppy-Kittens (1973)
• Curses! or...How Never to Be Foiled Again (1973)
• ISBN 0874770084
• What To Say When It Rains (1974)
• ISBN 0843103574
• Schmock-Schmock! (1975)
• ISBN 038509664X
• Meeting of Minds (1978)
• ISBN 0517533839
• 1989 printing: ISBN 0879755504
• Chopped-Up Chinese (1978)
• Ripoff: A Look at Corruption in America (1979)
• With Roslyn Bernstein and Donald H. Dunn
• ISBN 0818402490
• Meeting of Minds, Second Series (1979)
• ISBN 0517538946
• 1989 printing: ISBN 0879755652
• Explaining China (1980)
• ISBN 0517540622
• Funny People (1981)
• ISBN 0812827643
• Beloved Son: A Story of the Jesus Cults (1982)
• ISBN 0672526786
• More Funny People (1982)
• ISBN 0812828844
• How to Make a Speech (1986)
• ISBN 0070011648
• How to Be Funny: Discovering the Comic You (1987)
• With Jane Wollman
• ISBN 0070011990
• 1992 printing: ISBN 0879757922
• 1998 revised edition: ISBN 1573922064
• The Passionate Nonsmoker's Bill of Rights: The First Guide to Enacting Nonsmoking Legislation (1989)
• With Bill Adler, Jr.
• ISBN 0688062954
• "Dumbth": And 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter (1989)
• ISBN 0879755393
• 1998 revised edition: ISBN 1573922374
• Meeting of Minds, Vol. III (1989)
• ISBN 0879755660
• Meeting of Minds, Vol. IV (1989)
• ISBN 0879755679
• The Public Hating: A Collection of Short Stories (1990)
• ISBN 0942637224
• Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality (1990)
• ISBN 0879756381
• Hi-Ho, Steverino: The Story of My Adventures in the Wonderful Wacky World of Television (1992)
• ISBN 0942637550
• large-print edition: ISBN 1560545216
• More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality (1993)
• ISBN 0879757361
• Make 'em Laugh (1993)
• ISBN 0879758376
• Reflections (1994)
• ISBN 0879759046
• The Man Who Turned Back the Clock, and Other Short Stories (1995)
• ISBN 1573920029
• The Bug and the Slug in the Rug (1995)
• ISBN 1880851172
• But Seriously...: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind (1996)
• ISBN 1573920908
• Steve Allen's Songs: 100 Lyrics with Commentary (1999)
• ISBN 0786407360
• Steve Allen's Private Joke File (2000)
• ISBN 0609806726
• Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio--Raising the Standards of Popular Culture (2001)
• ISBN 1573928747

Allen's series of mystery novels "starring" himself and wife Jayne Meadows was actually ghostwritten by Walter J. Sheldon, and later Robert Westbrook)

Related Topics:
Ghostwritten - Walter J. Sheldon - Robert Westbrook

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• Murder in Manhattan (1990)
• ISBN 0821730339
• Murder in Vegas (1991)
• ISBN 0821734628
• The Murder Game (1993)
• ISBN 0821741152
• Murder on the Atlantic (1995)
• ISBN 0821746472
• Murder on the Glitter Box (1989)
• ISBN 0821727524
• The Talk Show Murders (1982)
• ISBN 0440084717
• Wake Up to Murder (1996)
• ISBN 1575660903
• Die Laughing (1998)
• ISBN 1575662418
• Murder in Hawaii (1999)
• ISBN 1575663759