Heywood “Woody” Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, European cinema and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life.
Books in order of publication:
| Getting Even | 1966 |
| Play It Again, Sam | 1969 |
| Without Feathers | 1975 |
| God | 1975 |
| Death | 1975 |
| The Kugelmass Episode | 1977 |
| Manhattan | 1979 |
| Love and Death | 1979 |
| Side Effects | 1980 |
| Annie Hall: Screenplay | 1980 |
| The Floating Light Bulb | 1982 |
| The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader | 1986 |
| Hannah and Her Sisters | 1987 |
| Zelig | 1990 |
| Woody Allen on Woody Allen | 1993 |
| Death Defying Acts | 1996 |
| Three One-act Plays: Riverside Drive/Old Saybrook/Central Park West | 2003 |
| Writer’s Block: Two One Act plays | 2005 |
| Mere Anarchy | 2007 |
| Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking | 2007 |
| Midnight in Paris: The Shooting Script | 2011 |
| Apropos of Nothing. Autobiography | 2020 |
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