Barefoot Boy with Cheek Author:Max Shulman This vintage piece of pre-WWII humor is also the debut novel of Max Shulman, who later created "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis". As a satire about college life, it remains timeless. The perceptive reader will see a fine literary genealogy here -- as Shulman owes a stylistic debt to Ring Lardner, so does Garrison Keillor owe one to Shulman.