Woody Allen bibliography

The following is a list of published (and some unpublished) works by or about the American film director Woody Allen.

Woody Allen at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival

Books

Novels

• What's with Baum? (2025), ISBN 9798895652381

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) ^[1]
• 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)^[2]
• Woody Allen: Interviews (2006) ^[3]

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.^[4]

• 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
2024	Brooklyn Story	Play	Opened on 4 October 2024, Budapest Hungary		Unpublished

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.