Cover art of Jim Northrup’s Days of Obsidian Days of Grace (Poetry Harbor, 1994).

Cover art for Jim Northrup’s Anishinaabe Syndicated (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2011).

Max Shulman in the 1970s, courtesy of Martha Rose Shulman.

Cover Max Shulman's of Potatoes Are Cheaper (Doubleday, 1971).

Max Shulman (seated) on the set of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, with Dwayne Hickman (left) and Bob Denver (above), ca. 1960, courtesy of Martha Rose Shulman.

The poster for Confidentially Connie, the 1953 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Max Shulman.

Poster for The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, the 1953 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Max Shulman.

title page of the 1951 edition of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, by Max Shulman. The book was first published in 1943.

Max and Carol Shulman, ca. 1940s. From a 1940s issue of Ski-U-Mah, the University of Minnesota’s humor magazine, available on microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society.