dustjacket) Tantivy Towers, by A. P. Herbert (1931) George Gershwin, a New York contemporary of Russian-Jewish heritage, chose him to do a set of edgy drawings illustrating each of the 18 songs in the first editions of George Gershwin's Song Book (1932) Dithers and Jitters, by Cornelia Otis Skinner (1938) Soap Behind the Ears, by Cornelia Otis Skinner (1941) Conversation Pieces (1942) was an autobiographical book of Alajálov's illustrations. Janet Flanner wrote the text and commentary of the book. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, by Cornelia Otis Skinner & Emily Kimbrough (1942) Sophie Halenczik, American, by Rose C. Feld (1943) Cinderella, Retold in Verse, by Alice Duer Miller (1943) Married at Leisure, by Virginia Lederer (pseudonym of Virginia Pringle) (1944) Esme of Paris, by Esme Davis (1944) Outside Eden, by Isabel Scott Rorick (1945) Hold Your Man, by Veronica Dengel (1945) Timothy's Angels, by William Rose Benét (1947) Family Album, by Paul Chavchavadze (1949) Nuts in May, by Cornelia Otis Skinner (1950) Bottoms Up!, by Cornelia Otis Skinner (1955) Aurora Dawn, by Herman Wouk (1956) The Island Players, by Ilka Chase (1956) Orpheus in America, Offenbach's Diary of his Journey in the New World, translated by Lander MacClintock (1957) The Ape in Me, by Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959) References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052534/http://www.curtispublishing.com/bios/Alajalov.shtml 1900 births 1987 deaths Russian people of Armenian descent American people of Armenian descent Artists from Rostov-on-Don Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States American magazine illustrators The Saturday Evening Post people The New Yorker people