Peter De Vries published 24 novels over his lifetime. At least four were adapted for major motion picture releases and Broadway:

1958, (Broadway and Film) The Tunnel of Love - starring Doris Day (Golden Globe - best actress), Richard Widmark, Gig Young and Gia Scala.
1976, (Broadway) Spofford - starring Melvyn Douglas and Barbara Britton.
1970, (Film) How Do I Love Thee? - starring Jackie Gleason, Maureen O'Hara and Shelly Winters.
1972, (Film) Pete 'n' Tillie - starring Walter Matthau and Carole Burnet;
Oscar nominations went to screenwriter Julius J. Epstein (winner), and supporting actress Geraldine Page.
1983, (Film) Reuben, Reuben - starring Tom Conti and Kelly McGillis
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Peter De Vries

(February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit. De Vries was born in Chicago, Illinois of Dutch immigrant parents. He was educated in Dutch Christian Reformed Church schools, graduating from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1931. He supported himself with a number of different jobs, including those of vending machine operator, toffee-apple salesman, radio actor in the 1930s, and as an editor for Poetry magazine from 1938 to 1944. He joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine at the insistence of James Thurber and worked there from 1944 to 1987, writing stories and touching up cartoon captions. Responsible for contributing to the cultural vernacular such witticisms, as "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be" and "Deep down, he's shallow," was, according to Kingsley Amis, "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic." But De Vries's life and work was informed as much by sorrow as by wit, and that dynamic is nowhere better seen than in his classics Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb. First published in 1982 and 1965, respectively, these novels reemerge with their sharp satire and biting pain undiluted by time. In all he published 24 novels, four of which were adapted for Broadway and major motion pictures. He had four children with wife Katinka Loeser; Jon, Derek, Jan, and Emily, who died at the age of 10 of leukemia. This experience provided the inspiration for his 1961 work, The Blood of the Lamb. De Vries received an honorary degree in 1979 from Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA. He died September 28, 1993 in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Novels

1952 No But I Saw the Movie

1954 The Tunnel of Love

1956 Comfort Me With Apples

1958 The Mackerel Plaza

1959 The Tents of Wickedness

1961 Through the Fields of Clover

1961 The Blood of the Lamb

1964 Reuben, Reuben

1965 Let Me Count the Ways

1967 The Vale of Laughter

1968 The Cat's Pajamas and Witch's Milk

1970 Mrs Wallop

1971 Into Your Tent I'll Creep

1972 Without a Stitch in Time

1973 Forever Panting

1975 The Glory of the Hummingbird

1976 I Hear America Swinging

1978 Madder Music

1980 Consenting Adults

1981 Sauce for the Goose

1983 Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

1985 The Prick of Noon

1986 Peckham's Marbles

Books about Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries and Surrealism by Dan Campion