Male : Actor, composer and playwright

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Teddington, Middlesex

Date of Birth : 1899 Date of Death : 1973 Age : 74

Pseudonyms : Hernia Whittlebot

1920-1925
I'll Leave it To You (1920 French 4/-) - wrappers
A Withered Nosegay (1922 Christopher's) - boards. Anon
Issued in the US in 1922 by Boni & Liveright as "Terribly Intimate Portraits"
The Rat Trap (1924 Ernest Benn) - cloth, no d/w
The Young Idea (1924 French) - wrappers
Fallen Angels (1925 Ernest Benn) - cloth, no d/w
Chelsea Buns (1925 Hutchinson) - boards. As Hernia Whittlebot
The Vortex (1925 Ernest benn) - cloth, no d/w
Hay Fever (1925 EB) - cloth, no d/w (1925 Harper)
Three Plays (1925 Ernest Benn)

1926-1930
The Queen Was in the Parlour (1926 EB) - cloth, no d/w
Easy Virtue (1926 EB) - cloth, no d/w (1926 Harper)
[Filmed in 1927]
This Was a Man (1926 Secker) (1926 Harper)
Sirocco (1927 Secker)
The Marquise (1927 EB) - cloth, no d/w
Home Chat (1927 Secker)
Three Plays (1928 Secker)
Bitter-Sweet & other Plays (1929 Doubleday)
Bitter Sweet (1929 Secker) (1929 Doubleday - 1000 signed)
Private Lives (1930 Secker) (1930 Doubleday Doran)
[Filmed in 1931]

1931-1935
(Heinemann from here on)
Post Mortem (1931)
Collected Sketches and Lyrics (1931 Hutchinson)
Cavalcade (1932) - in glassine wraps (1932 Grosset & Dunlap, NY)
[Filmed in 1933]
Spangled Unicorn (1932 Hutchinson) (1982 Frisch US)
Design for Living (1933) (1933 Doubleday)
[Filmed in 1933]
Conversation Piece (1934)
Play Parade (1934) - contains many previously publ plays
Point Valaine (1935) (1935 Doubleday)

1936-1940
Tonight at 8.30 : A Group of Plays (1936) - 3 vols (1937 Heinemann - single Vol) (1936 NY)
[Filmed in 1942 as "We Were Dancing"]
Present Inidicative (1937 Heinemann) (1937 Doubleday)
Operette (1938)
Second Play Parade (1939 Heinemann)
To Step Aside : Seven Short Stories (1939) (1939 Doubleday)
Curtain Calls (1940 Doubleday)

1941-1945
Australia Visited (1941 Heinemann)
Blithe Spirit (1941 Doubleday) (1942)
[Filmed in 1945 by David Lean]
Present Laughter (1943)
This Happy Breed (1943) (1947 Doubleday)
[Filmed in 1944]
Middle East Diary (1944 Heinemann 6/-) (1944 Doubleday)

1946-1955
Peace in Our Time : A Play in Two Acts & Eight Scenes (1947) (1948 Doubleday)
Play Parade Vol III (1950 H)
Star Quality : Six Stories (1951) (1951 Doubleday)
Relative Values : A Light Comedy in Three Acts (1952)
[Filmed in 2000]
Quadrille : A Play in Three Acts (1952) (1955 Doubleday)
The Noel Coward Songbook (1953 M Joseph) (1964 Methuen)
Play Parade Vol IV (1954 H)
Future Indefinite (1954 H) (1954 Doubleday)

1956-1960
South Sea Bubble (1956)
Nude with Violin (1956) (1958 NY)
Play Parade Vol V (1958 H)
Look After Lulu (1959) - based on 'Occupe-toi d'Amelie' by Georges Feydeau
Waiting in the Wings : A Play in Three Acts (1960) (1960 Doubleday)
Pomp and Circumstance (1960 Heinemann) (1960 Doubleday) - Novel

1961 Onwards
Play Parade Vol VI (1962 H)
The Collected Stories (1962) (1963 Dutton) - ss
Pretty Polly Barlow & Other stories (1964) (1965 Doubleday) - ss
[Filmed in 1967 as "Pretty Polly"]
The Lyrics of Noel Coward (1965 Heinemann) (1967 Doubleday)
Suite in Three Keys (1966) (1967 Doubleday)
Not Yet the Dodo & Other Verses (1967 Heinemann) (1968 Doubleday)
Bon Voyage & Other Stories (1967) (1968 Doubleday) - ss
The Noel Coward Diaries (1982 Weidenfeld & Nicolson) (1982 Atlantic - Little Brown)
- Edited by Sheridan Morley
A Withered Nosegay, Chelsea Buns, Spangled Uniocorn (1983 Methuen)
The Collected Short stories (1983 Dutton) - ss
Collected Verse (1984 Methuen)
Autobiography (1986 Methuen)
Noel Coward : The Complete Lyrics (1999 Methuen £30)

READING
Patrick Braybrooke : The Amazing Mr Noel Coward (1933 Dennis Archer)
Robert Graecen : The Art of Noel Coward (1953 Hand & Flower Press)
Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson : Theatrical Companion to Noel Coward (1957 Rockliff)
(Ed) Dick Richards : The Wit of Noel Coward (1968 Leslie Frewin)
Milton Levin : Noel Coward (1968 Twayne US)
Sheridan Morley : A Talent to Amuse (1969 Heinemann) (1985 Pavilion)
(Ed) John Hadfield : Cowardy Custard - The World of Noel Coward (1973 Heinemann)
Charles Castle : Noel (1982 W H Allen)
Clarence Ralph Morse : Mad Dogs & Englishmen - A Study of Noel Coward (1973 Heinemann)
William Marchant : The Privilege of His Company (1975 W & N)
Cole Lesley : The Life of Noel Coward (1976 Cape)
C R Yaravintelimath : Jesting Jeremiah - A Study of Noel Coward's Comic Vision
(1978 Karatak University, Dharwad)
Cole Lesley, Sheridan Morley, Graham Payn & : Noel Coward and His friends (1979 W & N)
John Lahr : Coward the Playwright (1982 Methuen)
Frances Gray : Noel Coward (1987 Macmillan)
Sheridan Morley : Out in the Midday Sun - The Paintings of Noel Coward (1988 Phaidon)
Richard Briers : Noel Coward & Company (1989 Futura)
Stephen Citron : Noel & Cole - The Sophisticates (1992 Sinclair-Stevenson)
Clive Fisher : Noel Coward (1992 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £17.99)
Graham Payn with Barry Day : My Life with Noel Coward (1994 Applause)
Philip Hoare : Noel Coward - A Biography (1995 Sinclair-Stevenson £25)
Terry Castle : Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall - Kindred Spirits (1996 Columbia UP £13.50)
The Private Lives of Noel and Gertie (1999 Oberon pb £14.99)