# Woody Allen bibliography

The following is a list of published (and some unpublished) works by or about the American film director Woody Allen.

## Books

Short stories and pieces
* Getting Even (1971), ISBN 0-394-47348-5
* Without Feathers (1975), ISBN 0-394-49743-0
* Side Effects (1980), ISBN 0-394-51104-2
* Mere Anarchy (2007), ISBN 978-1400066414
* Zero Gravity (2022), New York: Arcade Publishing
Autobiography
* Apropos of Nothing (2020), New York: Arcade Publishing
Compilation
* The Complete Prose of Woody Allen: Without feathers, Getting even and Side effects (1991)
* The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8129-7811-7.
Interviews
* Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman (2005)
* Woody Allen: Interviews (2006)
Chapbook
* Lunatic's Tale (1986), ISBN 1-55628-001-7 (Short story previously included in Side Effects.)

## The New Yorker pieces

Since 1966, Allen has written more than 38 humorous pieces for The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (January 22, 1966). "The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (May 28, 1966). "A Little Louder, Please". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (October 8, 1966). "Yes, But Can The Steam Engine Do This?". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (April 29, 1967). "Spring Bulletin". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (March 16, 1968). "Notes from the Overfeed". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (July 27, 1968). "Death Knocks". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (May 10, 1969). "The Metterling Lists". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (December 27, 1969). "My Philosophy". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (June 20, 1970). "Hassidic Tales, With A Guide To Their Interpretation By The Noted Scholar". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (August 15, 1970). "A Look at Organized Crime". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (April 17, 1971). "The Schmeed Memoirs". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (October 7, 1972). "Examining Psychic Phenomena". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (October 28, 1972). "A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (January 13, 1973). "The Early Essays". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (November 5, 1973). "Selections From The Allen Notebooks". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (October 28, 1974). "Lovborg's Women Considered". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (December 16, 1974). "The Whore of Mensa". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (March 3, 1975). "No Kaddish For Weinstein". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (March 17, 1975). "Fine Times: An Oral Memoir". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (December 29, 1975). "Reminiscences: Places And People". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (February 23, 1976). "By Destiny Denied (Notes for an Eight-Hundred-Page Novel-The Big Hook They're All Waiting For)". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (October 18, 1976). "The Confessions of a Burglar". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (May 2, 1977). "The Kugelmass Episode". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (June 13, 1977). "The UFO Menace". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (November 21, 1977). "The Condemned". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (February 5, 1979). "Fabrizio's: Criticism and Response". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (February 25, 1980). "The Diet". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (June 9, 1980). "A Giant Step for Mankind". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (February 21, 2000). "Attention Geniuses: Cash Only". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (November 13, 2000). "On a Bad Day You Can See Forever". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (March 4, 2002). "Sing, You Sacher Tortes". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (April 14, 2003). "The Rejection". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (December 13, 2004). "Surprise Rocks Disney Trial". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (November 21, 2005). "Above the Law, Below the Box Springs". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (July 6, 2006). "Thus Ate Zarathustra". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (October 2, 2006). "Pinchuck's Law". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (May 26, 2008). "Over, Around, and Through Your Highness". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (November 10, 2008). "Think Hard, It'll Come Back to You". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (March 30, 2009). "Tails of Manhattan". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (January 10, 2010). "Udder Madness". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (May 10, 2010). "Will the Real Avatar Please Stand Up". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (January 24, 2011). "Money Can Buy Happiness-As If". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (May 28, 2012). "Not a Creature Was Stirring". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker.
* Allen, Woody (August 5, 2013). "Now, where did I leave that oxygen tank?". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. 89 (23): 30–31.

## Plays

The following is a sortable table. :
| Year | Title | Type | Notes | Performances | Publication Notes |
| 1966 | From A to Z | Musical revue | Opened on Broadway 20 April 1960 | 21 performances | Unpublished Book by Allen, Herbert Farjeon, and Nina Warner Hook |
| 1966 | Don't Drink the Water | Play | Opened on Broadway 17 November 1966 | 598 performances | Published in 1967 ASIN B0006BSWBW |
| 1968 | Death Knocks | One-act play | | | first published in The New Yorker, 27 July 1968 |
| 1969 | Play It Again, Sam | Play | Opened on Broadway 12 February 1969 | 453 performances | ISBN 0-394-40663-X |
| 1975 | God | One-act play | | | First published in Allen's collection Without Feathers (1975) Available separately as ISBN 0-573-62201-9 |
| 1975 | Death | One-act play | | | First published in Allen's collection Without Feathers (1975) |
| 1981 | The Floating Light Bulb | Play | Opened on Broadway 27 April 1981 | 62 performances (+16 previews) | Published by Random House in 1982 |
| 1995 | Central Park West | One-act play | Opened as part of the off-Broadway three-play compilation Death Defying Acts (other two plays written by Elaine May and David Mamet) | | First published in 2003 as part of Allen's collection Three One-Act Plays |
| 2003 | Riverside Drive | One-act play | Opened on 15 May 2003 as part of the off-Broadway two-play compilation Writer's Block | | First published in 2003 as part of Allen's collection Three One-Act Plays |
| 2003 | Old Saybrook | One-act play | Opened on 15 May 2003 as part of the off-Broadway two-play compilation Writer's Block | | First published in 2003 as part of Allen's collection Three One-Act Plays |
| 2004 | A Second Hand Memory | Play | Opened off-Broadway 22 November 2004. Starring Michael McKean, Elizabeth Marvel, Kate Blumberg, Dominic Chianese and Beth Fowler. Directed by Allen. | | Unpublished |
| 2011 | Honeymoon Motel | One-act play | Opened on 20 October 2011 as part of the Broadway three-play compilation Relatively Speaking (other two plays written by Elaine May and Ethan Coen). | 118 performances | First published in 2012 as part of the collection Relatively Speaking |
| 2014 | Bullets Over Broadway | Musical | Opened on Broadway 10 April 2014 | 156 performances (+33 previews) | Book by Allen, based on the screenplay by Allen and Douglas McGrath |

## Biography

* Baxter, John (2000). Woody Allen: A Biography. Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7867-0807-9.
* Lax, Eric (2000). Woody Allen: A Biography. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80985-9.
* Meade, Marion (December 2010). The Unruly Life of Woody Allen. E-reads/E-rights. ISBN 978-1-61756-068-2.

## Critical studies

* Bailey, Peter (12 September 2010). The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2839-0.
* Blake, Richard Aloysius (1995). Woody Allen: profane and sacred. Scarecrow Press, Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8108-2993-0.
* Curry, Renée R. (1996). Perspectives on Woody Allen. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-1615-7.
* Flashner, Graham (1 January 1987). Fun With Woody: The Complete Woody Allen Quiz Book. Henry Holt & Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-0519-6.
* Girgus, Sam B. (18 November 2002). The Films of Woody Allen. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00929-4.
* Harvey, Adam (6 March 2007). The Soundtracks of Woody Allen: A Complete Guide to the Songs and Music in Every Film, 1969–2005. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-2968-4.
* King, Kimball (2001). Woody Allen: A Casebook. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-8153-3124-7.
* Lee, Sander H. (1997). Woody Allen's Angst: Philosophical Commentaries on His Serious Films. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0207-6.
* Navacelle, Thierry de (1987). Woody Allen on location. Morrow. ISBN 978-0-688-06643-7.
* Reimertz, Stephan (2005). Woody Allen (in German). Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
* Woody Allen: Conversations with Filmmakers Series, ed. R. E. Kapsis and K. Coblentz, (2006) ISBN 1-57806-793-6
* Ava Cahen, Woody Allen : Profession : cynique, L'Archipel, 2015 (ISBN 978-2-8098-1757-7)
* Brook, Vincent and Grinberg, Marat (Eds.): Woody on Rye. Jewishness in the films and plays of Woody Allen, Brandeis University Press, 2014
* Essay by Victoria Loy on Woody Allen's career, Senseofcinema.com
* Silet, Charles L.P. (27 July 2006). The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-7283-8.