Writings by the author

• The Frantic Young Man (novel), Coward, 1929.

• A Rather Simple Fellow (novel), Coward, 1931.

• The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, Gold Medal, 1953.

• The Girl in the House of Hate' (with Louise Samuels) , Gold Medal, 1953.

• Death Was the Bridegroom, Gold Medal, 1953.

• Night Fell on Georgia (with L. Samuels, Dell, 1956.

• The Magnificent Rube: The Life and Gaudy Times of Tex Rickard (biography), McGraw, 1957.

• The King: The Biography of Clark Gable, Coward, 1962 (published in England as The King of Hollywood: The Story of Clark Gable, Allen & Unwin, 1962).

• Only in New York, (photographs by Jan Yoors) Simon & Schuster, 1965.

• Once upon a Stage: The Merry World of Vaudeville (with L. Samuels), Dodd, 1974.

As-told-to biographies:

• His Eye Is on the Sparrow (with Ethel Waters), Doubleday, 1951, published with a new preface by Donald Bogle, Da Capo Press( New York City), 1992.

• Lady on the Beach (with Norah Berg), Prentice-Hall, 1952.

• Hockshop (with William R. and Florence K. Simpson), Random House, 1954.

• My Ten Years as a Counterspy (with Boris Morros), Viking, 1959.

• My Wonderful World of Slapstick (with Buster Keaton), Doubleday, 1960, published with a new introduction by Dwight Macdonald and a new filmography compiled by Raymond Rohauer, Da Capo Press, 1982.

• How to Catch 5,000 Thieves (with Gerard Luisi), Macmillan, 1962.

Samuels never graduated from high school or lost his Brooklyn accent. "I never wanted to be anything but a writer, have talent for nothing else except fast, furious, and occasionally witty conversation. I wouldn't trade my memories for anyone's," he told an interviewer.