in the neighborhood. 1961: Medusa in Gramercy Park is a book of poems by Horace Gregory 1963: It's Like This, Cat, the Newbery award winning children's book set in Gramercy Park by Emily Cheney Neville. 1965: The address in the title of Priscilla Dalton's 90 Gramercy Park does not actually exist. 1970: A character in Jack Finney's Time and Again lives in 19 Gramercy Park South around 1882. 1982: In The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe by Ken Darby, the character Archie Goodwin states that Nero Wolfe's townhouse was actually on East 22nd Street in the Gramercy Park district rather than the fictional West 35th street address(es) given in the novels to protect Wolfe's privacy. 1983: Bruce Nicolaysen's The Pirate of Gramercy Park is part of the Novel of New York multi-generation family historical fiction series. 1988: In the book Changes for Samantha, part of the American Girl series, Samantha stays at her Uncle Gardner and Aunt Cordelia's brownstone house in Gramercy Park. 1996: Author Lynn Kurland's heroine Elizabeth Smith falls asleep on a bench in 1996's Gramercy Park only to wake up in 1311 Scotland in A Dance Through Time. 2001: The mystery novel Murder on Gramercy Park by Victoria Thompson is part of the Gaslight Mystery series 2003: Paula Cohen's historical novel Gramercy Park is set in 1894. 2005: The Monsters of Gramercy Park by Danny Leigh is a psychological thriller. 2006: Several key scenes of Jed Rubenfeld's historical thriller The Interpretation of Murder, which is set in New York in 1909, take place in the park itself and the houses nearby, where one of the book's main protagonists lives. 2007: The Luxe, a book by Anna Godbersen, takes place in the neighborhood around Gramercy Park. 2010: In his memoir Assholes Finish First, Tucker Max recounts that he gained access to Gramercy Park to win a bet with a female acquaintance. To satisfy her end of the bet, she was required to give him fellatio while he was sitting on a bench in the park. 2010: Author Danielle Steel writes about Gramercy Park in her novel Big Girl. Films: Note: Gramercy Park is a private park, and film companies are not usually allowed to shoot there. 1935: In Howard Hawks' film Barbary Coast, the character Jim Carmichael, played by Joel McCrea, is said to live at 14 Gramercy Park, although currently residing in San Francisco, while the protagonist