The poster for Confidentially Connie, the 1953 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Max Shulman.

Poster for The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, the 1953 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Max Shulman.

title page of the 1951 edition of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, by Max Shulman. The book was first published in 1943.

Max and Carol Shulman, ca. 1940s. From a 1940s issue of Ski-U-Mah, the University of Minnesota’s humor magazine, available on microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Cover of Playbill for the musical adaptation of Max Shulman's novel Barefoot Boy with Cheek, which opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway in 1947.

Cover of Max Shulman's Zebra Derby (Doubleday, 1946).

Cover of Max Shulman’s Barefoot Boy With Cheek (Doubleday, Doran, 1943).

Max Shulman, at right, on the cover of the University of Minnesota’s humor magazine Ski-U-Mah, 1942. From a 1942 issue of Ski-U-Mah, available on microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Shulman at his desk as editor of the University of Minnesota’s humor magazine, Ski-U-Mah, ca. 1941. From a 1941 issue of Ski-U-Mah, available at the Minnesota Historical Society.