H. Allen Smith, one of America's most popular humorists, was born in McLeansboro, Illinois in 1907. He began his writing career with the Huntington, Indiana, Press at the age of fifteen. His twenty-year newspaper career found him on the staffs of newspapers in Jeffersonville, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; Tampa, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Denver, Colorado. At the age of nineteen he was the editor of the Sebring Daily American in Florida. In 1929 he joined United Press as a feature writer, and from 1936 to 1941 was on the staff of the New York World-Telegram
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Life in a Putty Knife Factory
Write Me a Poem, Baby
The Best of H. Allen Smith
The Compleat Practical Joker
Don't get Perconel With a Chicken
The Great Chili Confrontation; A Dramatic History of the Decade's
Most Impassioned Culinary Embroilment, With Recipes
Larks in the Popcorn
Low Man Rides Again
Rhubarb
The View from Chivo
3 Smiths in the Wind: Low Man On a Totem Pole, Life In a Putty Knife
Factory, Lost In the Latitudes
The Age of the Tail
Buskin' With H. Allen Smith: Salty Entertainment for Adults of All Ages
Desert Island Decameron
How to Become a Banker
We Went Thataway
How to Write Without Knowing Nothing
Let the Crabgrass Grow: H. Allen Smith's Suburban Almanac
The Pig in the Barbershop
The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler
Lo, The Farmer Egyptian!
Lost In the Horse Latitudes
Low Man on a Totem Pole
Mister Zip
Low and Inside: A Book of Baseball Anecdotes, Oddities, and Curiosities
MR. Klein's Kamph, or His Life as Hitler's Double
Poor H. Allen Smith's Almanac
The Rebel Yell
Return of the Virginain
Robert Gair: A Study
A Short History of Fingers: And Other State Papers
Son of Rhubarb
Three Men on Third
To Hell in a Handbasket
Two-Thirds Of A Coconut Tree
Waikiki Beachnik
We Went Thataway
The World, the Flesh and H. Allen Smith
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