Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them.

The Complete Prose of Woody Allen is a collection of fifty-two pieces of hilarious writing which firmly establish the author in the tradition of Groucho Marx and James Thurber. Woody Allen's prose displays his versatility and virtuosity with the written word, and his special brand of humour.

"If Allen had lived in Augustan England scholars would now be considering him alongside Dryden, Pope and Swift ... No five hundred page book ever contained a laugh a line, but his one gets pretty close." --- Daily Telegraph

"Touched by genius, Allen's talent is for feasting on the fantasies of his favourite writers. Nature, he says, is one vast restaurant. The same could be said of his most appetising art." --- Glasgow Herald

"Unless you agree that Woody Allen is one of the world's funniest writers, it is difficult to explain why you should exert every effort necessary to get hold of this book. All right, who's funnier?" --- Irish Times

"The Complete Prose is an ideal bedside companion, to be dipped into for quick hits of enjoyment." --- Will Self, London Review of Books