Question: Cruel Shoes is a collection of offbeat, mostly humorous essays and short stories by Steve Martin, and his first published book, and is also the title of one of the pieces therein, Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and what?

Context articles: Steve Martin
Kevin Nealon
Faith Salie
Tarzan and the Castaways
Cruel Shoes
David Martin (humorist)
Marita van der Vyver
Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
The Last Pool and Other Stories

Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician.
 Martin came to public notice in the 1960s as a writer for "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour", and later as a frequent guest on "The Tonight Show".
 In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours.
 Since the 1980s, having branched away from comedy, Martin has become a successful actor, as well as an author, playwright, pianist, and banjo player, eventually earning him an Emmy, Grammy, and American Comedy awards, among other honors.
Kevin Nealon ( ; born November 18, 1953) is an American actor and comedian, best known as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 1986 to 1995, acting in several of the Happy Madison films, for playing Doug Wilson on the Showtime series "Weeds", and providing the voice of the title character, Glenn Martin, on "Glenn Martin, DDS".
Faith Coley Salie (born April 14, 1971) is an American journalist, writer, actor, comedian and television and radio host.
 She is a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and a panelist on NPR’s "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
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 She hosts "Science Goes To The Movies" on PBS and CUNY TV.
 Her first book, "Approval Junkie", a collection of humorous essays, was published by Crown in April 2016.
Tarzan and the Castaways is a collection of stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twenty-fourth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan.
 In addition to the title novella, it includes two Tarzan short stories.
 Of the three pieces, "Tarzan and the Jungle Murders", was written first, in January 1939.
 It was first published in the magazine "Thrilling Adventures" in the issue for June 1940.
 "Tarzan and the Champion" was written in July 1939, and first published in "Blue Book Magazine" in the issue for April 1940.
 "The Quest of Tarzan" was begun in November 1940 and first published in the magazine "Argosy Weekly" as a three-part serial in the issues for August 23, August 30, and September 6, 1941.
 The three stories were gathered together and first published in book form in hardcover by Canaveral Press in 1965.
 At that time "The Quest of Tarzan" was retitled "Tarzan and the Castaways" to avoid confusion with the earlier Tarzan novel "Tarzan's Quest".
 The first paperback edition was issued by Ballantine Books in July 1965.
Cruel Shoes is a collection of offbeat, mostly humorous essays and short stories by Steve Martin, and his first published book, and is also the title of one of the pieces therein, a satirical short-short story about a woman in a shoe store.
David Martin (born March 23, 1950) is a lawyer by training and a retired federal public servant.
 He is now a full-time writer of short humour and political satire, and from 2010 to 2012 had a bi-weekly humour column in The Ottawa Citizen.
 Martin has been writing op-ed pieces and humorous essays for more than 25 years and his work has appeared on the op-ed pages of most major North American daily newspapers including "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "The Chicago Tribune", "The L.A. Times", and "The Globe and Mail".
 His work has also appeared in magazines such as Newsweek and Smithsonian Magazine.
 He is also the author of My Friend W, a collection of his political satire published in 2005 by Arriviste Press, and Dare to be Average, a collection of his humour pieces published in 2010 by Lulu.com.
 His most recent humour collection entitled Screams & Whispers was published in 2013 and is available on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca.
Marita van der Vyver (born 6 May 1958) is an Afrikaans author who has written several books for both adult and youth audiences.
 Since 1999, she has been settled in France with her husband and three children.
 Van der Vyver wrote a collection of humorous essays detailing life in the countryside of France, titled "Die hart van ons huis" in 2004, after which her first volume of short stories, "Bestemmings" was released, together with an English counterpart.
Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore is a collection of seventeen short stories by Singapore author Catherine Lim.
 It was first published in 1978, in Singapore, by Heinemann under the Writing in Asia Series and earned for the writer much accolade.
 It is Lim's first published book of fiction.
 "Little Ironies" was later used as a set text for GCE 'N' Levels.
 It is also the first collection of short stories to be written by a single author in Singapore.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome.
 It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist.
 While widely considered one of Jerome’s better works, and in spite of using the same style as "Three Men in a Boat", it was never as popular as the latter.
 A second "Idle Thoughts" book, "The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow", was published in 1898.
The Last Pool and Other Stories is a 1950 collection of short stories by novelist and writer Patrick O'Brian.
 It was his first published book under the name Patrick O'Brian (though he had published several works under his birth name Patrick Russ as a teenager).
The thirteen stories are largely about rural experiences, focusing on fishing hunting, shooting, and the experiences surrounding those rural pastimes.
 Published by Secker and Warburg, the collection included several stories that would later be republished in "The Walker and other stories".
 The collection was both a critical and financial success for O'Brian.