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Jules Feiffer Dies: Cartoonist, Playwright & ‘Carnal Knowledge’ Screenwriter Was 95


Jules Feiffer, a Pultizer Prize-winning cartoonist and author who also wrote the screenplay for films, including Carnal Knowledge and Popeye, has died.

He went on to write what became his best-known screenplay for the Mike Nichols-directed Carnal Knowledge in 1971, starring Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel. Feiffer was the author of novels,1963’s Harry the Rat with Women and 1977’s Ackroyd, as well as several children’s books, including Bark, George; Henry, The Dog with No Tail; A Room with a Zoo; The Daddy Mountain; and A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears. In 1995, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2014 he was honored by the Writers Guild of America with a lifetime achievement award.

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