- (1938) Stage: Wrote (w/Joseph Schrank) "Good Hunting", produced on Broadway. Satire. Directed by Gerald Mayer. Hudson Theatre: 21 Nov 1938-Nov 1938 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: John Barrington, George Brandt, Dennis Gurney, Edward Harvey, Marcel Journet (as "Lt. Frenique"), Nicholas Joy (as "Lt. Col. Jarvis, D.S.O."), Alfred Kappeler (as "Gen. Liebfrau"), Susi Lanner, James Larmore, Aubrey Mather, LeRoi Operti (as "Monsieur Jervais"), Tracey D. Rutledge, Horace Sinclair (as "Maj. Gen. Sir Arthur Reynolds, D.S.O."), Ben Smith, Guy Spaull (as "Willliam Lewis"), Jess Thomassen, George Tobias (as "Hank Russo"), Derek Williams, J.P. Wilson, Estelle Winwood (as "Grace Hargreaves"). Produced by Leonard Fields and Jerome Meyer.
- (1957) Stage: Wrote source material (novel) for "Miss Lonelyhearts", produced on Broadway. Written by Howard Teichmann. Scenic / Lighting Design by Jo Mielziner. Directed by Alan Schneider. Music Box Theatre: 3 Oct 1957-12 Oct 1957 (12 performances). Cast: Irene Dailey, Maurice Ellis, Henderson Forsythe, William Hickey (as "Goldsmith"), Jo Anna March, Anne Meara (as "Sick-of-it-All"), Dan Morgan, Pat O'Brien (as "William Spain"), Marian Reardon, Pippa Scott (as "Betty"), Janet Ward, Ruth Warrick, Fritz Weaver (as "A Boy"). Produced by Lester Osterman Jr. and Alfred R. Glancy Jr. NOTE: Filmed as I'll Tell the World (1945).
- (1931) Novel: "The Dream Life of Balso Snell". Contact Editions. NOTE: A literary rarity; only 500 copies were published, although story was republished in posthumous editions of West's collective works]. 95 pgs. ISB: N/A. West's first novel, it presents a young man's immature and cynical search for meaning in a series of dreamlike encounters inside the entrails of the Trojan Horse.
- (1933) Novel: "Miss Lonelyhearts". Liveright Publishing. NOTE: (1) West's second novel. It is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression. (2) Filmed as Advice to the Forlorn (1933), Lonelyhearts (1958), I'll Tell the World (1945). (3) Composer Lowell Liebermann completed "Miss Lonelyhearts", a two-act opera. The libretto was written by J.D. McClatchy. The opera, which received its premiere on 26 Apr 2006 at the Juilliard Opera Center, was commissioned by the Juilliard School for its centennial celebration.
- (1934) Novel: "A Cool Million". Covici Friede Publishing. NOTE: (1) A literary rarity; only 3000 copies in print. 224 pgs. ISBN: N/A. (2) A satire of the Horatio Alger myth of success, the novel is evocative of Voltaire's "Candide", which satirized the philosophical optimism of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Alexander Pope. (3) Story sold to Columbia Pictures (screenplay adaption assigned to assigned it to screenwriter Sidney Buchman) for $10,000 but never produced.
- (1939) Novel: "The Day of the Locust". Random House Publishing (1st Publication date: 16 May 1939). ISBN 978-0451523488. OCLC Number 22865781. 238 pgs. NOTE: (1) Filmed as The Day of the Locust (1975). (2) It is widely believed that Matt Groening named the character "Homer Simpson" from his series The Simpsons (1989) from West's work [Turner, Planet Simpson, pg. 77].
- (1930s) Short story: "Western Union Boy". NOTE: Unpublished during West's lifetime, contained in Library of America edition of "Nathanael West: Novels & Other Writings" (1997).
- (1934) Playwright (w/S.J. Perelman): "Even Stephen" (unproduced). NOTE: West and Perelman finished the play in the summer of 1934 and hoped the play might be staged on Broadway that fall, but it was rejected by several producers, including Max Gordon. In 1936 West sent Perelman a letter repeating an earlier suggestion to try and find an agent for the play. He suggested that if Perelman thought it would damage their reputations, they could use a pseudonym, perhaps "Diana Breed Latimer", the play's protagonist. After West's death in 1940 Perelman revised the play, but no one was interested in producing it.
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