ironic as his "On Campus" column was sponsored by a cigarette company), as well as the South and college football. His last major project was House Calls, which began as a 1978 movie based on one of his stories, and starred Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson; it spun off the 1979–1982 television series of the same name, starring Wayne Rogers and Lynn Redgrave in the leads. Shulman was the head writer. Shulman was one of the collaborators on a 1954 non-fiction television program Light's Diamond Jubilee, timed to the 75th anniversary of the invention of the light bulb. Family Shulman married twice: he had four children from his first marriage with Carol S. Rees (21 December 1941 - 17 May 1963, her death) and one child from his second marriage with Mary Gordon Bryant (14 June 1964 - 28 August 1988, his death). His daughter, Martha Rose Shulman, is a cookbook author. Max Shulman died August 28, 1988, of bone cancer at the age of 69 in Los Angeles, California. Selected bibliography Barefoot Boy With Cheek (1943) The Feather Merchants (1944) The Zebra Derby (1946) Max Shulman's Large Economy Size (1948), includes Barefoot Boy with Cheek, The Feather Merchants, The Zebra Derby Sleep Till Noon (1950) The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1951) Max Shulman's Guided Tour of Campus Humor (1955) Rally Round the Flag Boys! (1957) Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) — (film) I Was a Teenage Dwarf (1959) Anyone Got a Match? (1964) Potatoes Are Cheaper (1971) References External links Excerpt from Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, by Max Shulman "Love Is a Fallacy", a short story. 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American male screenwriters American humorists 1919 births 1988 deaths University of Minnesota alumni Place of birth missing 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American male dramatists and playwrights American male short story writers American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent Jewish American dramatists and playwrights Novelists from Minnesota 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers Writers from Saint Paul, Minnesota 20th-century American screenwriters 20th-century American Jews