the 1940s relating to Frederick's Of Men and Books series for CBS Radio. Four letters from Cuppy to children's author Anne Carroll Moore are among her papers at the New York Public Library Iranian controversy A Persian translation by Najaf Daryabandari of Cuppy's The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody was published in 1972 under the title of Čenin konand bozorgān (چنین کنند بزرگان, Thus Act the Great). The good quality of the Persian prose and the fact of Cuppy's being unknown in Iran led to speculation that the book was not a translation, but an original book by Daryabandari and possibly a collaborator, who was speculated to be Ahmad Shamlou. It was guessed that this had been done in order to bypass the Pahlavi era censor. Daryabandari denied it several times, even after the Iranian Revolution. The issue was not publicly settled until the satire magazine Golagha ran an article about their "discovery" of Cuppy, which proved Daryabandari right. Selected bibliography Books (1951) How to Get from January to December, New York: Holt. Edited by Fred Feldkamp. Illustrations by John Ruge. (1950) The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, New York: Holt. Edited by Fred Feldkamp. Illustrations by William Steig. (1949) How to Attract the Wombat, New York: Rinehart. Illustrations by Ed Nofziger. (1944) The Great Bustard and Other People (containing How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct), New York : Murray Hill Books. (1941) How to Become Extinct, New York: Farrar and Rinehart. Illustrations by William Steig. (1931) How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, New York: Horace Liveright, Inc. Introduction by P. G. Wodehouse. Illustrations by "Jacks." (1929) How to Be a Hermit, New York: Horace Liveright. (1910) Maroon Tales, Chicago: Forbes & Co.. Books, edited (1946) Murder Without Tears: An Anthology of Crime, New York: Sheridan House. (1943) World's Great Detective Stories: American and English Masterpieces, New York, Cleveland: World. (1943) World's Great Mystery Stories: American and English Masterpieces, New York, Cleveland: World. Book, contributed footnotes (1937) Garden Rubbish and Other Country Bumps by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman; with footnotes by Will Cuppy. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Book containing articles by Will Cuppy (1948) The Home Book of Laughter, May Lamberton Becker (ed.), New York: Dodd, Mead. M.A. thesis completed at the University of Chicago (1914) The Elizabethan Conception of Prose Style. Book about Will