224 pages; Workman Publishing
Available at: Amazon.com | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound

"My mother's name is Muffie, so already that's funny," says Wentworth, who believes that the 1980 tongue-in-cheek self-help manual offered early inspiration. "In comedy you look at your upbringing and try to find the humor in it, and this book helped me. I grew up in the world of boarding schools, and The Official Preppy Handbook was the first time I saw that you could make fun of that life. Years later I wrote The WASP Cookbook, which has recipes like prune whip and tomato aspic, with social commentary."

— As told to Lesley Gaspar